Both a memoir and an investigation, "Swimming in a Sea of Death" is
David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan
Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. 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.
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.
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.
Drawing on his mother's heroic struggle, paying tribute to her
doctors' ingenuity and faithfulness, and determined to tell what
happened to them all, "Swimming in a Sea of Death" subtly draws
wider lessons that will be of value to others when they find
themselves in the same situation.
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