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Author:

Schreiber, Daniel, 1977- author.

Title:

Susan Sontag : a biography / Daniel Schreiber ; translated from the German by David Dollenmayer.

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiii, 280 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Sontag, Susan,--1933-2004.
Women authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors--Biography.
Critics--Biography.

Other Titles:

Susan Sontag. English.

Notes:

"Originally published in German in 2007 under the title Susan Sontag: Geist und Glamour." Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Memories of a so-called childhood (1933-1944) -- The invention of Susan Sontag (1945-1948) -- Intellectual delirium (1949-1957) -- Paris, a romance (1958-1959) -- The New York nexus (1959-1963) -- Camp (1964) -- Styles of the avant-garde (1965-1967) -- Radical chic (1967-1969) -- Behind the camera (1969-1972) -- In semi-exile (1972-1975) -- The kingdom of the sick (1975-1979) -- The last intellectual (1980-1983) -- Small-scale politics (1984-1988) -- Return to the Magic Mountain (1989-1992) -- Theater at the spiritual front (1993-1997) -- Life and afterlife (1998-2001) -- The pain of others (2001-2004).

ISBN:

0810125838 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780810125834 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2014001065

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)