Description
Author Alix Strauss takes a provocative look at the self-imposed deaths of the famous and infamous in Death Becomes Them. In this fascinating and intimate chronicle of celebrity suicides, the spotlight shines on the lonely last moments of Kurt Cobain and Ernest Hemingway, Abbie Hoffman and Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Dandridge, Sigmund Freud, Hunter S. Thompson, and others. Death Becomes Them explores their sadness and madness, their accomplishments and the circumstances that led to their irreversible decision, and wishes them all a fond final good-bye.
Author: Alix Strauss
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/15/2009
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.14w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9780061728563
ISBN10: 006172856X
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Suicide
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Social Science | Sociology | General