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Susan Sontag
Jerome Boyd Maunsell
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Description for Susan Sontag
Paperback. A new biography, which assesses the astonishing scope and offers captivating insight into the life and work of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth-century, Susan Sontag. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
'My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything", declared Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004). Essayist, diarist, filmmaker, novelist and playwright, her own life seemed to match this ideal. As well as writing in an unusually broad array of genres, Sontag wrote about a startling range of topics - from literature, dance, film and painting to cancer, aids and the ethics of war reportage. Few have captured the twentieth century in the same manner. In this new biography Jerome Boyd Maunsell assesses the astonishing scope of Sontag's life and work, tracing her growth during her academic career at ... Read more
'My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything", declared Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004). Essayist, diarist, filmmaker, novelist and playwright, her own life seemed to match this ideal. As well as writing in an unusually broad array of genres, Sontag wrote about a startling range of topics - from literature, dance, film and painting to cancer, aids and the ethics of war reportage. Few have captured the twentieth century in the same manner. In this new biography Jerome Boyd Maunsell assesses the astonishing scope of Sontag's life and work, tracing her growth during her academic career at ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Critical Lives
Condition
New
Weight
341g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780232881
SKU
V9781780232881
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About Jerome Boyd Maunsell
Jerome Boyd Maunsell is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Life-Writing Research, King's College London, and former books editor of Frieze.
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