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Sontag / her life and work / Benjamin Moser.

Moser, Benjamin, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780062896391 : HRD
  • ISBN: 0062896393 : HRD
  • Physical Description: xiii, 816 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism" -- Provided by publisher.
Subject: Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Women authors, American > 20th century > Biography.

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Sontag : Her Life and Work
Sontag : Her Life and Work
by Moser, Benjamin
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Sontag : Her Life and Work

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
Introduction: Auction of Soulsp. 1
Part I
Chapter 1    The Queen of Denialp. 17
Chapter 2    The Master Liep. 29
Chapter 3    From Another Planetp. 37
Chapter 4    Lower Slobboviap. 55
Chapter 5    The Color of Shamep. 67
Chapter 6    The Bi's Progressp. 79
Chapter 7    The Benevolent Dictatorshipp. 93
Chapter 8    Mr. Casaubonp. 105
Chapter 9    The Moralistp. 119
Chapter 10    The Harvard Gnosticsp. 133
Part II
Chapter 11    What Do You Mean by Mean?p. 151
Chapter 12    The Price of Saltp. 167
Chapter 13    The Comedy of Rolesp. 183
Chapter 14    All Joy or All Ragep. 199
Chapter 15    Funsvillep. 223
Chapter 16    Where You Leave Off and the Camera Beginsp. 245
Chapter 17    God Bless Americap. 265
Chapter 18    Continent of Neurosisp. 283
Chapter 19    Xu-Dan Xôn-Tacp. 299
Chapter 20    Four Hundred Lesbiansp. 317
Chapter 21    China, Women, Freaksp. 331
Chapter 22    The Very Nature of Thinkingp. 349
Chapter 23    Quite Unseducedp. 363
Part III
Chapter 24    Toujours Fidèlep. 381
Chapter 25    Who Does She Think She Is?p. 403
Chapter 26    The Slave of Seriousnessp. 417
Chapter 27    Things That Go Rightp. 437
Chapter 28    The Word Won't Go Awayp. 459
Chapter 29    Why Don't You Go Back to the Hotel?p. 475
Chapter 30    Casual Intimacyp. 491
Chapter 31    This "Susan Sontag" Thingp. 507
Chapter 32    Taking Hostagesp. 523
Chapter 33    The Collectible Womanp. 535
Part IV
Chapter 34    A Serious Personp. 551
Chapter 35    A Cultural Eventp. 569
Chapter 36    The Susan Storyp. 585
Chapter 37    The Calls Wayp. 599
Chapter 38    The Sea Creaturep. 611
Chapter 39    The Most Natural Thing in the Worldp. 625
Chapter 40    It's What a Writer Isp. 641
Chapter 41    A Spectator of Calamitiesp. 655
Chapter 42    Can't Understand, Can't Imaginep. 669
Chapter 43    The Only Thing That's Realp. 683
Epilogue: The Body and Its Metaphorsp. 699
Acknowledgmentsp. 707
Notesp. 713
Bibliographyp. 775
Creditsp. 789
Indexp. 793

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