Sontag : her life and work / Benjamin Moser.
| Author/creator | Moser, Benjamin, 1976- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] |
| Description | xiii, 816 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Auction of souls -- The queen of denial -- The master lie -- From another planet -- Lower slobbovia -- The color of shame -- The bi's progress -- The benevolent dictatorship -- Mr. Casaubon -- The moralist -- The Harvard gnostics -- What do you mean by mean? -- The price of salt -- The comedy of roles -- All joy or rage -- Funsville -- Where you leave off and the camera begins -- God bless America -- Continent of neurosis -- Xu-Dan Xôn-Tăc -- Four hundred lesbians -- China, women, freaks -- The very nature of thinking -- Quite unseduced -- Toujours fidèle -- WHo does she think she is? -- The slave of seriousness -- Things that go right -- The word won't go away -- WHy don't you go back to the hotel? -- Casual intimacy -- This "Susan Sontag" thing -- Taking hostages -- The collectible woman -- A serious person -- A cultural event -- The Susan story -- The callas way -- The sea creature -- The most natural thing in the world -- It's what a writer is -- A spectator of calamities -- Can't understand, can't imagine -- the only thing that's real -- The body and its metaphors. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [713]-787) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Moser, Benjamin, author. Sontag First edition. New York : Ecco, [2019] 9780062896414 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2018044760 |
| ISBN | 9780062896391 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0062896393 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780062896407 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0062896407 hardcover |
| Standard identifier# | 40029447571 |