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Author Moser, Benjamin.

Title Sontag : her life and work / Benjamin Moser.

Publication Info. New York : Ecco, 2019.
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 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY SONTAG    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY SONTAG, SUSAN    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B SONTAG S.    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B SONTAG, SUSAN    Check Shelf
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 SONTAG, SUS    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description 816 pages, [32] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism" -- Provided by publisher.
No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own. Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—and featuring nearly one hundred images—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography. Product I
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [713]-774) and index.
Subject Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. (OCoLC)fst00034879
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Women authors, American. (OCoLC)fst01177210
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Moser, Benjamin, author. Sontag First edition. New York : Ecco, [2019] 9780062896414 (DLC) 2018050255
ISBN 9780062896391 (hardcover)
0062896393 (hardcover)
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