| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 816 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Physical Medium |
regular print |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 713-787) and index. |
| Contents |
Auction of souls -- Queen of denial -- Master lie -- From another planet -- Lower Slobbovia -- Color of shame -- Bi's progress -- Benevolent dictatorship -- Mr. Casaubon -- Moralist -- Harvard gnostics -- What do you mean by mean? -- Price of salt -- Comedy of roles -- All joy or all rage -- Funsville -- Where you leave off and the camera begins -- God bless America -- Continent of neurosis -- Xu-Dan Xôn-Tăc -- Four hundred lesbians -- China, women, freaks -- Very nature of thinking -- Quite unseduced -- Toujours fidèle -- Who does she think she is? -- Slave of seriousness -- Things that go right -- Word won't go away -- Why don't you go back to the hotel? -- Casual intimacy -- This "Susan Sontag" thing -- Taking hostages -- Collectible woman -- A serious person -- A cultural event -- Susan story -- Callas way -- Sea creature -- Most natural thing in the world -- It's what a writer is -- A spectator of calamities -- Can't understand, can't imagine -- Only thing that's real -- Body and its metaphors. |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 2020. |
| Subject |
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
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Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Women authors, American. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Moser, Benjamin, author. Sontag First edition. New York : Ecco, [2019] 9780062896414 (DLC) 2018050255 |
| ISBN |
9780062896391 (hardcover) |
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0062896393 (hardcover) |
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9780062896407 (paperback) |
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0062896407 (paperback) |
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9780062896414 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
40029447571 |
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