Sempre Susan: A memoir of Susan Sontag
Author: Nunez, Sigrid
ISBN: 9781594633348
Publisher: Riverhead
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 211mm x 142mm x 8mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Novelist Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, her blindingly bright intelligence, and her edgy personal style, Sontag introduced Nunez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating.
Novelist Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, her blindingly bright intelligence, and her edgy personal style, Sontag introduced Nunez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating. Soon Nunez had moved into the apartment that Rieff and Sontag shared. Described by Nunez as 'a natural mentor,' Sontag inevitably infected those around her with her many cultural and intellectual passions. Her influence on Nunez would be profound, and here Nunez looks back with gratitude and offers a startlingly truthful portrait of one of America's most esteemed and fascinating cultural and intellectual figures.
'The best thing written about Sontag.' Edmund White, author or City Boy
'This memoir is at once a window into the writing life in general, an examination of the complexities of one artist in particular, and a tribute to the lost intellectual New York City of the 1970s. Remarkably, it's as honest as it is affectionate and as sad as it is charming.' Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Sisterland
'As epigrammatic, funny, and brutal as its subject. Sontag fans, haters, and agnostics alike will find that it contains indispensable lessons, both explicitly and subtle, about how and how not to write, and how and how not to live.' Emily Gould, author of Friendship- A Novel
ISBN: 9781594633348
Publisher: Riverhead
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 211mm x 142mm x 8mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Novelist Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, her blindingly bright intelligence, and her edgy personal style, Sontag introduced Nunez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating.
Novelist Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, her blindingly bright intelligence, and her edgy personal style, Sontag introduced Nunez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating. Soon Nunez had moved into the apartment that Rieff and Sontag shared. Described by Nunez as 'a natural mentor,' Sontag inevitably infected those around her with her many cultural and intellectual passions. Her influence on Nunez would be profound, and here Nunez looks back with gratitude and offers a startlingly truthful portrait of one of America's most esteemed and fascinating cultural and intellectual figures.
'The best thing written about Sontag.' Edmund White, author or City Boy
'This memoir is at once a window into the writing life in general, an examination of the complexities of one artist in particular, and a tribute to the lost intellectual New York City of the 1970s. Remarkably, it's as honest as it is affectionate and as sad as it is charming.' Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Sisterland
'As epigrammatic, funny, and brutal as its subject. Sontag fans, haters, and agnostics alike will find that it contains indispensable lessons, both explicitly and subtle, about how and how not to write, and how and how not to live.' Emily Gould, author of Friendship- A Novel
