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Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon Revised, Update Edition
Contributor(s): Rollyson, Carl (Author), Paddock, Lisa (Author)

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 ISBN: 162846237X     ISBN-13: 9781628462371
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2016003042
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (1.20 lbs) 368 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 03/01/2017
 
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Publisher Description:
This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer's life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag's newly released private correspondence--including emails--and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her best. The authors reveal as never before her early years in Tucson and Los Angeles, her conflicted relationship with her mother, her longing for her absent father, and her precocious achievements at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Papers, diaries, and lecture notes, many accessible for the first time, spark a passionate fire in this biography.

The authors follow Sontag as she abruptly ends an early first marriage, establishes herself in Paris, and embraces the open lifestyle she began as a teenager in Berkeley. As a single mother she struggled with teaching at Columbia University and other colleges while aiming for a career as a novelist and essayist. Eventually she made her own way in New York City after acquiring her one and only publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

In her later years Sontag became a world figure, a tastemaker, dramatist, and political activist who risked her life in besieged Sarajevo. Love affairs with men and women troubled her. Diagnosed with cancer, she responded with determination, and her experience with illness inspired some of her best writing. This biography shows Sontag always craving "more life" at whatever cost and depicts her harrowing final decline even as she resisted terminal cancer. Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated presents in candid and stark relief a new assessment of a heroic and controversial figure.

Contributor Bio(s): Paddock, Lisa: - Lisa Paddock, Cape May County, New Jersey, is a freelance writer and editor.Rollyson, Carl: - Carl Rollyson, Cape May County, New Jersey, is professor of journalism at Baruch College, CUNY. His books include American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath; Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography; Confessions of a Serial Biographer; A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan; Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews; and Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated (the latter three published by University Press of Mississippi).
 
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