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008			120817s2013 mau o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9781613762158
020			_a1613762151
020			_z9781558499652 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_z9781558499645 (library cloth : alk. paper)
020			_z1558499644
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aPS366.A88 _bB45 2013
082	0	0	_a810.9/3548 _223
100	1		_aBerman, Jeffrey, _d1945-
245	1	0	_aDying in character _h[electronic resource] : _bmemoirs on the end of life / _cJeffrey Berman.
260			_aAmherst : _bUniversity of Massachusetts Press, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (336 p.)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: "It is when faced with death that we turn most bookish" -- "I never saw or heard the car coming": my close call with death -- "Death itself is a wonderful and positive experience": Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and The wheel of life -- "With autobiography there's always another text, a countertext": Philip Roth and Patrimony -- "Death confers a certain beauty on one's hours": Harold Brodkey and This wild darkness -- "I have never been tempted to write about my own life": Susan Sontag, David Rieff, and Swimming in a sea of death -- "Sleeplessness for me is a cherished state": Edward W. Said and Out of place -- "There is more than one sort of luck": Tony Judt and The memory chalet -- "I never realized dying could be so much fun": Art Buchwald and Too soon to say goodbye -- "Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die": Morrie Schwartz's Letting go and Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie -- "I'm dying and I'm having fun": Randy Pausch and The last lecture -- "Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories": Jean-Dominique Bauby and The diving bell and The butterfly -- "I live in my suffering and that makes me happy": Roland Barthes and Mourning diary -- Conclusion: "alive when I died".
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aDeath _xPsychological aspects.
650		0	_aSelf in literature.
650		0	_aDeath in literature.
650		0	_aAutobiography.
650		0	_aTerminally ill _zUnited States _xBiography _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCritically ill _zUnited States _xBiography _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican prose literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAuthors, American _xBiography _xHistory and criticism.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781613762158/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c31920 _d31920