Where the Stress Falls
$31.50
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2009
Summary
A collection of more than forty pieces of Sontag’s writing from the last twenty years, new to Penguin Modern Classics.
Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections:
- Reading: Ardent pieces on writers from Sontag’s own private canon – Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick.
- Seeing: Sontag shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theatre.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141190211 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141190213 |
| Author: | Susan Sontag |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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’[The essays] invariably also leave one with the urgent desire to read the book or see the painting, play, dance she describes. Her passion evokes that urgency…’ Bookforum
’[The essays] invariably also leave one with the urgent desire to read the book or see the painting, play, dance she describes. Her passion evokes that urgency…’ Bookforum
About The Author
Susan Sontag
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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