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Sontag, Susan Death Kit
Trafalgar Square August 18, 1994 0-09-938711-5 / 9780099387114 Paperback Very Good+
Released in 1963 and 1967, respectively, these are Sontag's first and secon d novels. In The Benefactor, protagonist Hippolyte "depends on his dreams t o direct the course of his life". The story, which unfolds over a 60-year p eriod, might itself be a dream. Death Kit is no less cerebral. "In Death Kit Susan Sontag has written a terrifying black novel with the fi erce unsettling thrust of a Kafka-esque fable. It is a truly awesome book, forged from a stark in which staccato sentences and near-documentary observ ations are fused into a brilliantly sustained style."-Boston Globe "It seems an impertinence merely to recommend this book for its literary qu alities. Death Kit is an experience beyond definition, part novel, part thr iller, part philosophy, part dream."-Douglas M. Davis, The National Observe r "Death Kit is a strange and wonderful book, a ritual exorcising of modern t errors, a dream book of love and death . . . Sontag conjures up scenes of s ordid everyday life that are as brutal and macabre as anything in Raymond C handler or Nathaniel West."-Frederic Tuten, Vogue "This novel is 'real art'-disconcerting, absorbing, entertaining (in the Gr eek sense of the verb; to grip), and extremely unnerving. One can only say, in the most direct way: read it."-Doris Grumbach "Death Kit . . . is a powerful visionary novel and a remarkable achievement. Miss Sontag has written an extraordinary novel, a Kafka-ish nightmare of an American Jederman, which proclaims at once her soaring talent and her profound pessimism."-John Barkham, Saturday Review
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Sontag, Susan In America : A Novel
Picador May, 2001 0-312-27320-7 / 9780312273200 Paperback Near Fine /No DJ as Issued
As she did in The Volcano Lover, Sontag crafts a novel of ideas in which re al figures from the past enact their lives against an assiduously researche d, almost cinematically vivid background. Here again her signal achievement is to offer fresh and insightful commentary on the social and cultural cur rents of an age. A great collectible (Inscribed by the Author)
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Sontag, Susan (Editor) The Best American Essays, 1992
Houghton Mifflin Company November 1, 199 0-395-59936-9 / 9780395599365 Paperback Very Good
Edited by Sontag ( The Volcano Lover ), this collection amply demonstrates the diversity of subject matter that stimulates contemporary essayists. Ada m Gopnik traces John James Audubon's self-transformation from French emigre dilettante to American woodsman; John Updike probes the persistence of the Mickey Mouse icon; E. L. Doctorow tries to fathom the mysteries of songs, which "have the capacity to represent in their lyrics and lines of melody w ars and other disasters, moral process, the fruits of experience, and, like prayers, the consolations beyond loss"; Stanley Elkin contends that Hamlet and the Mona Lisa are overrated masterpieces; and John Guillory discusses the difference between the literary canon and the classroom syllabus. This collection is uneven. Low points include Patricia Storace's critique of a l ackluster biography of the mediocre, probably racist Gone with the Wind aut hor Margaret Mitchell and Jamaica Kincaid's shriek against everything Engli sh. Highlights include Joan Didion's dissection of the Central Park jogger rape case's hold on the New York psyche, and David Rieff's critique of the recovery movement .
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