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Susan Sontag (Hardcover)

By: Carl Rollyson (Author) and Lisa Olson Paddock (Author)

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"The book neither sympathizes with its subject nor trashes her. A kind of semiruthless, semi-good-natured impersonality prevails throughout....This book never penetrates the glazed surface of Sontag's appearance or the formal character of her work....[H]owever many interviews were conducted with friends and enemies alike, the reader is left knowing that a wall still stands behind which Susan Sontag lurks, undetected and unknown."

"[I]t delivers the dish, but not much more. If you're looking for the sort of bitchy nuggets that go to prove that people of achievement--and intellectuals in particular--are invariably miserable characters, this will suit you just fine. Meanwhile, the real Sontag has eluded us--and will undoubtedly continue to do so until such time as she gets the smart, serious biography she deserves."

"An engagingly gossipy biography....Although light on both literary and psychological substance, this biography, like Sontag herself, has plenty of charm."

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The first--and unauthorized--biography of the so-called dark lady of American letters.
Ever since she took American culture by storm with the publication of her Notes on Camp in 1964, Susan Sontag has been a star. Her austere glamour has been a critical factor in her success, making her a role model for intellectual women, a sex symbol for brainy men. She has never ceased to fascinate the public: as brilliant wunderkind, bringing the latest in French thought to America; as sophisticated analyst of her own experience with cancer in Illness as Metaphor; as champion of free speech in the Rushdie Affair; as theater director in besieged Sarajevo; and, with the publication of The Volcano Lover, as best-selling historical novelist. Yet she has both courted that fascination and insisted on holding it at a distance, demanding control over her public image. This first--and most definitely unauthorized--biography delves beneath the surface to examine the forces that made Susan Sontag an international icon. Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock explore her public persona and private passions, including the strategies behind her meteoric rise to fame and her political moves and missteps. Above all, they show how the life of Susan Sontag reveals to us the way we live now.

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This critical biography of critic, novelist, essayist, and all-round intellectual Susan Sontag reveals many little-known facts about her, including her lesbianism, her struggles with cancer, and her relationship with her son.

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