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Moser, Benjamin, author.

Sontag : her life and work / Benjamin Moser.

First edition.

New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]

xiii, 816 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

"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.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [713]-787) and index.

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.

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