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David Rieff, Swimming in a Sea of Death
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Saturday Feb 2, 2008 (7pm)
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The writer David Rieff comes from some pretty heavy intellectual stock. He is the sole child of Philip Rieff, an American sociologist known for his book Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, and Susan Sontag, who really needs no introduction. Still, even if writing and criticism were in the blood, Rieff has made his own mark with years of insightful, sometimes contentious work on foreign policy, genocide, and human rights. An interesting addendum to Sontag's own 1978 classic Illness as Metaphor, Rieff's new book, Swimming in a Sea of Death, is a memoir about his mother's multistage cancer and eventual death in 2004.
