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A Susan Sontag Reader

A Susan Sontag Reader

1983 ·
·4.09·130 Ratings ·446 Pages
“ The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ” ― Rumi
Authors' Books
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    2001·
    ·4.08·234 Ratings
    The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is
  • The Unpossessed

    2002·
    ·3.51·133 Ratings
    Tess Slesinger's 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life and features a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts. Th
  • Morte D'Urban

    2000·
    ·3.86·674 Ratings
    Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambi
  • Sleepless Nights

    2001·
    ·3.78·1,251 Ratings
    In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beauti
  • The New York Stories

    2010·
    ·3.58·161 Ratings
    Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked a
  • At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

    2007·
    ·3.95·538 Ratings
    "A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brillianc
  • Selected Stories

    2002·
    ·4.22·1,105 Ratings
    How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a Paul Klee in words, maker of droll, whimsical, tender, and heartbreak
  • A Barthes Reader

    1983·
    ·4.05·174 Ratings
    A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell
  • Plays: Maria Irene Fornes

    2001·
    ·4.02·164 Ratings
    The celebrated playwright, director, translator, lyricist, and seven-time Obie Award winner, has been an influential voice in American theatre for more than four decades and a highly-regarded teacher of playwriting. Includes: Mud, The Danube, Sarita, and
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