Swimming in a Sea of Death - by Rieff (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Both a memoir and an investigation, Rieffs tribute to his mother--writer Susan Sontag--explores her final battle with cancer and looks at the state of medical science and leading cancer physicians who combine treating patients with pursuing the cutting edge of research.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Both a memoir and an investigation, <i>Swimming in a Sea of Death</i> is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer.</b> Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity. <p/> Rieff offers no easy answers. Instead, his intensely personal book is a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. In his most profound work, this brilliant writer confronts the blunt feelings of the survivor -- the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough. <p/> And he tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living. <p/> Drawing on his mother's heroic struggle, paying tribute to her doctors' ingenuity and faithfulness, and determined to tell what happened to them all, <i>Swimming in a Sea of Death</i> subtly draws wider lessons that will be of value to others when they find themselves in the same situation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Susan Sontag was fiercely, exuberantly alive, and uncompromising in her life no less than her work. David Rieff's fine, tender, and unflinching portrait of her final illness brings home her absolute determination to survive to the last -- to survive against the odds and live creatively despite a devastating disease and an unproven cancer treatment. At once a report from the frontlines of experimental oncology and a moving, absorbing personal account of his mother's last illness, <i>Swimming in a Sea of Death</i> is a courageous and darkly beautiful book. -- Oliver Sacks<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>David Rieff is the author of eight previous books, including <i>Swimming in a Sea of Death</i>, <i>At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention</i>; <i>A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis</i>; and <i>Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West</i>. He lives in New York City.
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