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As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh( )
Author: Sontag, Susan
Editor: Rieff, David
ISBN:978-1-250-02412-1
Publication Date:Jul 2013
Publisher:Picador
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.00
Book Description:

A Financial Times Best Book of 2012 From the turbulent years of her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden and up to the eve of the 1980 election, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh documents the evolution of an extraordinary mind. The 1966 publication of Against Interpretation propelled Susan Sontag from the periphery of New York City's artistic and intellectual milieu into the international spotlight,...
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Book Details
Pages:544
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Social Science / Women's Studies
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.69 x 8.22 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:0.858 Pounds
Author Biography
Sontag, Susan (Author)
Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne's College, Oxford University. She was the author of 17 books including four novels, a collection of short stories, several plays, and eight works of nonfiction. Her novels are The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction. On Photography received the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and Art in America. She also wrote and directed four feature films and stage plays in the United States and Europe. She died from leukemia on December 28, 2004 at the age of 71.

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