Description: "A reissue of Susan Sontag's classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing-on art, life, camp, and criticism-that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and beyond, her generation"--
Brief description: Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among them On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004.
Review Quotes:
"Susan Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on." --Carlos Fuentes
"A dazzling intellectual performance." --Vogue "Susan Sontag is a writer of rare energy and provocative newness." --The Nation "The theoretical portions of her book are delightful to read because she can argue so well. . . . Her ideas are consistently stimulating." --Commentary "She has come to symbolize the writer and thinker in many variations: as analyst, rhapsodist, and roving eye, as public scold and portable conscience." --Time