The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflections on Death - Hardcover

Dinnage, Rosemary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670827630 ISBN 13: 9780670827633

Publisher: Viking, 1990

Synopsis

A number of people, some of them eminent and well-known, some of them ordinary men and women, talk about death and what it means to them. Here we have: Jonathan Miller talking expansively on the metaphors in which he has conceived of it since childhood and how they have influenced his theatre work - Roy Porter on the history of people's attitudes to it - Oxford philosopher Galen Stawson on how he overcame his terror of it despite lacking still any religious faith - and a London fireman on what it is like to face and see death every day of the week - and so on. A collection, edited by Rosemary Dinnage, who previously wrote a book of interviews about psychotherapy, "One to One".

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0670827630
• ISBN 13: 9780670827633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304