Death Kit

“In “Death Kit “Susan Sontag has written a terrifying black novel with the fierce unsettling thrust of a Kafka-esque fable. It is a truly awesome book, forged from a stark in which staccato sentences and near-documentary observations are fused into a brilliantly sustained style.“—”Boston Globe”
“It seems an impertinence merely to recommend this book for its literary qualities.” Death Kit” is an experience beyond definition, part novel, part thriller, part philosophy, part dream.“—Douglas M. Davis, “The National Observer”
”“Death Kit” is a strange and wonderful book, a ritual exorcising of modern terrors, a dream book of love and death … Sontag conjures up scenes of sordid everyday life that are as brutal and macabre as anything in Raymond Chandler or Nathaniel West.“—Frederic Tuten, “Vogue”
“This novel is ‘real art’—disconcerting, absorbing, entertaining (in the Greek sense of the verb; to grip), and extremely unnerving. One can only say, in the
“In “Death Kit Susan Sontag has written a terrifying black novel with the fierce unsettling thrust of a Kafka-esque fable. It is a truly awesome book, forged from a stark in which staccato sentences and near-documentary observations are fused into a brilliantly sustained style.”–“Boston Globe
“It seems an impertinence merely to recommend this book for its literary qualities.” Death Kit is an experience beyond definition, part novel, part thriller, part philosophy, part dream.“–Douglas M. Davis, “The National Observer
”“Death Kit is a strange and wonderful book, a ritual exorcising of modern terrors, a dream book of love and death … Sontag conjures up scenes of sordid everyday life that are as brutal and macabre as anything in Raymond Chandler or Nathaniel West.”–Frederic Tuten, “Vogue
“This novel is ‘real art’–disconcerting, absorbing, entertaining (in the Greek sense of the verb; to grip), and extremely unnerving. One can only say, in the most direct way: read it.”–Doris Grumbach
”“Death Kit … is a powerful visionary novel and a remarkable achievement. Miss Sontag has written an extraordinary novel, a Kafka-ish nightmare of an American Jederman, which proclaims at once her soaring talent and her profound pessimism.”–John Barkham, “Saturday Review

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

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