Arturo Vivante
Posted at 8:25AM Thursday 01 May 2008
'She came to an end six days later - not slowly, like a train arriving at a station, but swiftly and convulsively, like a train derailing." So the Italian-born writer Arturo Vivante depicted, with a doctor's eye, the death of a character inspired by his mother. He himself, however, died slowly, at 84, a year after publishing a final novel that incorporated some of the 70 finely observed, autobiographical stories which, translated, were published by the New Yorker over the past 50 years.
Obituary in The Guardian
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