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Alix Strauss is a lifestyle trend writer who appears on national morning and talk shows. Her articles have been published in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Time, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. She is the author of The Joy of Funerals, Have I Got a Guy for You, and Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious.
Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious
by Alix Strauss
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- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date: 09/15/2009
- Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 352
- Sales rank: 332,830
- File size: 3 MB
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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.
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Adolf Hitler and Virginia Woolf; Mark Rothko and Kurt Cobain. These people and the other celebrities in this book shared only two things: their fame and their suicides. Alix Strauss' Death Becomes Them doesn't prove its title claim, but it does keep us rapt with its all-too-true tales of final exits.
Publishers Weekly
For those who never miss the obits, this odd little compendium of true suicide stories from author Strauss (The Joy of Funerals, Have I Got a Guy for You) may scratch a certain itch. Focusing mainly on creative types-writers, actors, musicians and artists-Strauss strikes a genial tone infused with plenty of gallows humor; Sylvia Plath's tale is amended with a breezy sidebar on the troubled poet's method of self-execution, an oven fueled by coal gas: "Cheaper than pills, easier than hanging, and less messy than the remnants from a gunshot, death by coal was quick, painless, and, most important, easily accessible." Strauss's giddy enthusiasm for the topic manifests in easy jokes and glib chapter titles ("Not the Suite Life: Ten Hotel Suicides"), as well as lists of facts that read dangerously close to DIY instruction. One can almost forgive the relentlessly upbeat tone, however, as the book proves hopelessly dreary, even for the most morbid of tabloid-readers. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Jerry Stahl
A truly unique, compelling and strangely life-affirming work of literary investigation. The perfect book to get you through the night. A.J. Jacobs
Dark, grisly, and completely fascinating. I almost felt guilty for so thoroughly enjoying this look at history’s most tormented souls.Michael Largo
Strauss brilliantly exposes the devilry in the details and makes the profoundly moving, self-inflicted end-days of the greats a fascinating read.Rona Jaffe
A truly unique, compelling and strangely life-affirming work of literary investigation. The perfect book to get you through the night.