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1	On Photography more books like this by Susan Sontag In her great classic work ON PHOTOGRAPHY (1977), without including a single photograph, Susan Sontag looks at the impact of photography on real life in the 20th century. Her thesis is that the universal presence of the photographic image in our lives as something we take for granted has made the photograph more real than what it represents, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Illness as Metaphor more books like this by Susan Sontag These two influential essays--ILLNESS AS METAPHOR (1978) and its sequel from a decade later, AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS--tackle the uncomfortable subject of disease, and specifically the metaphors we use to try to come to terms with it. Dealing not only with AIDS but also with tuberculosis, syphilis, and cancer, Sontag makes a case for the necessity ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Regarding the Pain of Others more books like this by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag looks at the depiction of the cruelties of modern life on the evening news, along with the media's role in shaping the viewer's perception of events. As, thanks to television, atrocity becomes commonplace, does the viewer become anesthetized to it? Does it lead to greater violence? How exactly are people affected by their inability to ... see all copies from $3.94! new only from $5.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	In America more books like this by Susan Sontag In a glorious, sweeping new novel by the bestselling author of "The Volcano Lover, " Sontag once again bases her work on a real story. In 1876, a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travels to California to found a "utopian" commune. "In America" is a big, juicy, surprising book about a woman's search for self ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Volcano Lover: A Romance more books like this by Susan Sontag Based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson, the young British admiral who was the greatest hero of the time, this novel is about revolution, nature, emotions, the condition of women, and above all, love. Sontag is the acclaimed author of AIDS and Its Metaphor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors more books like this by Susan Sontag These two influential essays--ILLNESS AS METAPHOR (1978) and its sequel from a decade later, AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS--tackle the uncomfortable subject of disease, and specifically the metaphors we use to try to come to terms with it. Dealing not only with AIDS but also with tuberculosis, syphilis, and cancer, Sontag makes a case for the necessity ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Against interpretation and other essays more books like this by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag's first collection of essays, the book that made her famous, was published in 1966. Most of the essays--potent demonstrations of her dazzling analytical gifts--take avant-garde novelists, dramatists, and filmmakers as their subjects, including Sartre, Camus, Godard, and Beckett. But the collection also includes her erudite and ... see all copies from $4.25! new only from $8.28! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Against Interpretation more books like this by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag's first collection of essays, the book that made her famous, was published in 1966. Most of the essays--potent demonstrations of her dazzling analytical gifts--take avant-garde novelists, dramatists, and filmmakers as their subjects, including Sartre, Camus, Godard, and Beckett. But the collection also includes her erudite and ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $15.47! \| first editions
9	Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak more books like this by Jean Hatzfeld, Linda Coverdale (Translator), Susan Sontag (Preface by) A veteran foreign correspondent reports on the results of his interviews with nine Hutus who helped to kill 50,000 out of their 59,000 Tutsi neighbors. This testimony of the Rwanda horror reconsiders the foundation of human morality and ethics. see all copies from $2.62! new only from $2.71! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine more books like this by Tom Wolfe This collection of Wolfe's essays includes such classics as "The Me Decade" and "Street Fighters." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Styles of Radical Will more books like this by Susan Sontag In her second essay collection, Sontag "displays an enlightened, energetic intellect exploring the margins of contemporary consciousness."-The New York Times see all copies from $2.28! new only from $6.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Under the Sign of Saturn more books like this by Susan Sontag In her most recent collection of essays, "one of America's foremost critics" (Washington Post ) discusses the relationship between moral and esthetic ideas. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	I, etcetera more books like this by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag's 1978 collection of eight stories bears her trademarks: they are intensely cerebral, interestingly experimental, wryly witty, and unlike the work of anyone else. The story "Unguided Tour" was called by Anatole Broyard in the New York Times "Sontag's apotheosis as a fiction writer." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Death Kit more books like this by Susan Sontag First published in 1967, Sontag's second novel is a classic of modern fiction as well as brilliant exploration of the recesses of the American conscience. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Epitaph of a Small Winner more books like this by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Susan Sontag (Foreword by) "I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who had died and is now writing." So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.60! \| first editions
16 view cover	Volcano Lover more books like this by Susan Sontag Based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson, The Volcano Lover is about revolution, the fate of nature, the condition of women, and above all, love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Where the Stress Falls more books like this by Susan Sontag Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer. Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, Sontag has chosen more than 40 longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Benefactor more books like this by Susan Sontag Originally published in 1963, THE BENEFACTOR, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, introduced to the world a unique and formidable writer. Hippolyte is a latter-day Candide whose violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the "real world." A fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait, this novel ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Antonin Artaud more books like this by Susan Sontag, Antonin Artaud A revolutionary figure in the literary avant garde of his time, Antonin Artaud is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writing comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historic novel, plays, essays on film, theater, art and literature, and many letters. Susan Sontag's selection conveys the genius of this singular ... see all copies from $10.09! new only from $27.50! \| first editions
20 view cover	Another Beauty more books like this by Adam Zagajewski, Clare Cavanagh (Translator) In this memoir, a Polish expatriate poet recalls the days he spent on the dark side of the Iron Curtain, recreating the atmosphere of desperation and idealism that enveloped his youth, when he began writing poems and aligning himself with freedom-seeking political groups. Zagajewski relates his experience in a series of lyric descriptions, ... see all copies from $3.52! new only from $3.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	The Best American Essays 1992 more books like this by Susan Sontag (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) This selection of 20 essays was edited by Susan Sontag. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.90! \| first editions \| SVS
22	A Susan Sontag reader more books like this by Susan Sontag see all copies from $9.00! new only from $195.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches more books like this by Susan Sontag, Paolo Dilonardo (Editor), Anne Jump (Editor) "At the Same Time" gathers 16 essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty. see all copies from $2.23! new only from $3.92! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Place in the World Called Paris more books like this by Steven Barclay (Editor), Miles Hyman (Illustrator), Susan Sontag (Foreword by) Paris--with its subtle moods, elegant charm, and sensual allure--inspires writers and visitors like no other city. A Place in the World Called Paris, now in a beautiful paperback edition, collects the twentieth century's most distinguished authors writing on the unique facets of the City of Light. This anthology of more than 170 short excerpts ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
25	Illness/Metaphor V844 more books like this by Susan Sontag see all copies from $1.99! new only from $67.28! \| first editions

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