Stories
Author: Sontag, Susan
ISBN: 9780241982716
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Complete collected stories from one of the most brilliant & influential writers of the twentieth century
Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories- fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life, dramatizing Sontag's private griefs and fears.
Stories collects all of Sontag's short fiction for the first time. This astonishingly versatile collection showcases its peerless writer at the height of her powers. For any Sontag fan, it is an unmissable testament to her creative achievements.
ISBN: 9780241982716
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Complete collected stories from one of the most brilliant & influential writers of the twentieth century
Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories- fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life, dramatizing Sontag's private griefs and fears.
Stories collects all of Sontag's short fiction for the first time. This astonishingly versatile collection showcases its peerless writer at the height of her powers. For any Sontag fan, it is an unmissable testament to her creative achievements.
