Katie Roiphe's new book, The Violet Hour, examines how several great writers confronted their own impending deaths. One of Roiphe's six favorite books that deal with illness and dying, as shared at The Week magazine:On Being Ill by Virginia WoolfRead about the other entries on the list.
In this lovely, wise book, Woolf offers a wholly original meditation on being ill. She captures the separateness from everyday life engendered by illness, the isolation (both the good and bad sides of it), and the ways in which illness inheres in identity.
--Marshal Zeringue
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