LAST RITES: The Death of William Saroyan

by Aram Saroyan

Overview

Given word that their difficult famous father is dying, brother and sister embark on an eleventh-hour struggle to heal a shattered family. "A daring and unusual book," writes the New York Times. "Perhaps the best essay ever written about learning to replace judgment with compassion and rejection with understanding." –Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, author of On Death and Dying.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013963276
Publisher:	An Air Book
Publication date:	02/18/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Aram Saroyan's books available on nook include Rancho Mirage: An American Tragedy of Manners, Madness and Murder; Trio: The Intimate Friendship of Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, and Gloria Vanderbilt; Last Rites: The Death of William Saroyan; Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation; Artie Shaw Talking; My Own Avedon: A Memoir with Photographs; and The Street: An Autobiographical Novel. His Complete Minimal Poems received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His most recent book is Door to the River: Essays and Reviews from the 1960s into the Digital Age.