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Dec 29, 2004 susan sontag, the dark lady of american intellectual life for over four decades, has died of cancer. In america is a big, juicy, surprising bookabout a womans search for selftransformation, about the fate of idealism, about the world of the theaterthat will captivate its readers from the first page. Find summaries for every chapter, including a on photography chapter summary chart to help you understand the book. In 1990 she received a fiveyear fellowship from the macarthur foundation. An unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest and most provocative critic of our time. In america isbn 9780312273200 pdf epub susan sontag ebook. David rieff on how his mother, susan sontag, lived as a citizen of the republic of letters. Against interpretation styles of radical will on photography illness as metaphor. This second volume in library of americas definitive sontag edition gathers all the collected essays and speeches.
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