# The Violet Hour

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- Book: [The Violet Hour](https://www.bookquiver.com/katie-roiphe/the-violet-hour) ([The Violet Hour.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/katie-roiphe/the-violet-hour.md))
- Authors: [Katie Roiphe](https://www.bookquiver.com/katie-roiphe)
- Publisher: The Dial Press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-08-1298-849-9
- Published: 2016-03-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter—an...