The Violet Hour

  • The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture
    By David Bergman

    In 1975 he started working for Virgil Thomson, the extraordinary composer and writer who, with Gertrude Stein, created Four Saints in Three Acts, one of the most important operas in American musical history.

  • The Violet Hour
    By Daniel Judson

    Hurrying upstairs , he took off his peacoat , laid it on his bed , then grabbed his steerhide jacket and helmet from his closet , pulled a scarf from a hook on the back of the closet door , and tossed them all onto the peacoat .

  • The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
    By Katie Roiphe

    "In this category-defying book, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects: death.

  • The Violet Hour: A Play
    By Richard Greenberg

    A fledgling World War I-era publisher is trying to decide which work to choose as his imprint's first title, and the choice is further complicated by the arrival of a mysterious machine.

  • The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
    By Katie Roiphe

    Here is Susan Sontag, the consummate public intellectual, who finds her commitment to rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer.

  • The Violet Hour: A Novel
    By Katherine Hill

    Exquisitely written, The Violet Hour is “a rewarding family saga reminiscent of Anne Tyler’s novels.

  • The Violet Hour
    By Whitney A. Miller

    ... royally flushed. I'd really done it this time. Maybe enough to earn a fullblown quarantine I would never get out from under. Goose bumps rose on my arms. It wasn't just the icebox temperature of this and every room the General stayed in ...

  • The Violet Hour
    By Sergio del Molino

    An excellently written heartbreaking read--a poignant account of unending love and hope.