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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with problems not assimilable to the essay, her more customary mode. Here she catches fragments of life on the fly, dramatizes her private griefs and fears, lets characters take her where they will. The result is a collection of remarkable brilliance,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas.
"Reading" offers ardent, freewheeling...
3) I, etcetera
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©1978
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays, the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.
4) Death kit
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1967]
Physical Desc
311 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1967, Death Kit-Susan Sontag's classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, it offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience.
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