Stories
Collected Stories
$25.33
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
5 May 2022
Summary
Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories - fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn’t address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life, dramatizing Sontag’s private griefs and fears.
Stories collects all of Sontag’s short fictio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241982716 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241982715 |
| Author: | Susan Sontag |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 5 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 237g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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If you are a bibliophile, you need this beautiful hardback in your life… These superb stories show the sheer versatility of one of this century’s most inquisitive minds * Book Riot *
About The Author
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.
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