Monday, March 21, 2016

Katie Roiphe's six favorite books that deal with illness & dying

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 Woolf

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.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue