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Sontag - Her Life (Hardcover)
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Sontag - Her Life (Hardcover)
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WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Selected as a Book
of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and
FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can
be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory vigour - of
Moser's biography... a triumph of the virtues of seriousness and
truth-telling that Susan Sontag espoused' New Stateman The
definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering
figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism
and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star.
Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her
an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the
twentieth-century world. Her writing on art and politics, feminism
and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, Fascism
and Freudianism, Communism and Americanism, reflected the
conflicted meanings of a most conflicted word: modernity. She was
there when the Cuban Revolution began and the Berlin Wall came
down, in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel.
Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her
reputation was based, exploring the private woman hidden behind the
formidable public face. Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted
from Maui to Stockholm and from Manhattan to Sarajevo - and
featuring nearly one hundred images, many never seen before -
Sontag is the first book based on the writer's restricted archives,
and on access to many people who have never before spoken about
her, including Annie Leibovitz. It is an indelible portrait of one
of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, who lived one of that
century's most romantic - and most anguished - lives.
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