In America
$39.11
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2009
Summary
New to Penguin Modern Classics for this story of idealism and the American stage.
The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland’s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska’s subsequent triump…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141190105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141190108 |
| Author: | Susan Sontag |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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‘A tour de force…A magical accomplishment by an alchemist of ideas and words, images and truth.’ - Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun ‘[In America] has an invigorating spaciousness…packed with characters, incidents, and colour, and combining mass appeal with high intelligence.’ - Walter Kirn, New York magazine
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 On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and 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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