Final Chapters
Book description
"Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case." William Saroyan, Pulitzer Prize winning author
Famous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. Final Chapters tells the fascinating stories of more than one hundred writers' encounters with…
Why read it?
1 author picked Final Chapters as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Captured by the title, I thoroughly enjoyed reading these short and succinct biographies of famous writers from Aeschylus to Roger Ebert, no less.
Bernhard’s humour shines through these ditties about life and death, dispelling myths and reinventing legends. I was so taken by Bernhard’s stories, that I was compelled to write a short story about Edgar Allan Poe, and draft a play about Samuel Beckett. Talk about influential, mercy!
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