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Death Be Not Proud (book)
memoir by John Gunther
Death Be Not Proud is a memoir by American journalist John Gunther.
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The book describes the decline and death of Gunther's son, Johnny, due to a brain tumor. The title comes from Holy Sonnet X by John Donne, also known from its first line as the poem Death Be Not Proud.
At the time the book was published in the late s, memoirs about illness and grief were uncommon.[1]
Synopsis
The book is an account of Johnny Gunther's experience with a brain tumor, and ends with his death at age
The book consists of two parts.
Part 1 contains the primary narrative of the book, while Part 2 contains additional letters written by Johnny, excerpts from his diary, and a short essay by his mother, Frances Gunther.
The primary narrative consists of five chapters, and an Aftermath section.
Chapter 1 begins with Johnny's diagnosis with a brain tumor in the spring of It describes the first operation that Johnny underwent, at th