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1	On Photography more books like this by Susan Sontag Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato's Cave"essay, then offers five other prose meditations ... see all copies from £6.14! new only from £7.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Regarding the Pain of Others more books like this by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag looks at the depiction of the cruelties of modern life on the evening news, along with the media's role in shaping the viewer's perception of events. As, thanks to television, atrocity becomes commonplace, does the viewer become anesthetized to it? Does it lead to greater violence? How exactly are people affected by their inability to ... see all copies from £4.99! new only from £6.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors more books like this by Susan Sontag In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor," a classic work described by "Newsweek" as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit ... see all copies from £2.13! new only from £10.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Illness as Metaphor more books like this by Susan Sontag These two influential essays--ILLNESS AS METAPHOR (1978) and its sequel from a decade later, AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS--tackle the uncomfortable subject of disease, and specifically the metaphors we use to try to come to terms with it. Dealing not only with AIDS but also with tuberculosis, syphilis, and cancer, Sontag makes a case for the necessity ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £10.58! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 more books like this by Susan Sontag, David Rieff (Editor) This first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. "Reborn" is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers and intellectuals. see all copies from £14.17! new only from £14.17!
6	Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak more books like this by Jean Hatzfeld, Linda Coverdale (Translator), Susan Sontag (Preface by) A veteran foreign correspondent reports on the results of his interviews with nine Hutus who helped to kill 50,000 out of their 59,000 Tutsi neighbors. This testimony of the Rwanda horror reconsiders the foundation of human morality and ethics. see all copies from £7.16! new only from £9.90! \| first editions
7	In America more books like this by Susan Sontag In 1876, a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travels to California to found a "utopian" commune. The commune fails, and most of the group go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage. see all copies from £2.03! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Against interpretation and other essays more books like this by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag's first collection of essays, the book that made her famous, was published in 1966. Most of the essays--potent demonstrations of her dazzling analytical gifts--take avant-garde novelists, dramatists, and filmmakers as their subjects, including Sartre, Camus, Godard, and Beckett. But the collection also includes her erudite and ... see all copies from £10.08! new only from £10.08! \| first editions
9	Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine more books like this by Tom Wolfe This collection of Wolfe's essays includes such classics as "The Me Decade" and "Street Fighters." see all copies from £2.98! new only from £6.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Against Interpretation more books like this by Susan Sontag This work is a selection from Susan Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. First published in 1966, the book quickly became a modern classic and has had enormous influence here and abroad. As well as the title essay, 'On Style' and the famous 'Notes on Camp', the book includes discussion of such figures as Satre, Simone ... see all copies from £5.99! new only from £6.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The Volcano Lover: A Romance more books like this by Susan Sontag Based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson, the young British admiral who was the greatest hero of the time, this novel is about revolution, nature, emotions, the condition of women, and above all, love. Sontag is the acclaimed author of AIDS and Its Metaphor. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £6.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Styles of Radical Will more books like this by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag's second collection of essays extends the investigations she undertook in "Against Interpretation", with essays on film, literature and politics, and a study of pornography. see all copies from £6.14! new only from £10.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	I, etcetera more books like this by Susan Sontag A collection of eight short stories, written over the course of ten years, exploring the terrain of modern urban life. The narratives are seamed with many of the themes of Sontag's essays - the nature of knowing, and our relationship with the past and the future in an alienated present. see all copies from £4.12! new only from £9.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Under the Sign of Saturn more books like this by Susan Sontag A collection of essays on the relationship between moral and aesthetic ideas. The book brings together some of Sontag's best critical writing of the 1970s, on subjects ranging from Walter Benjamin to Antonin Artuad, Elias Canetti and Leni Reifenstahl. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £8.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Where the Stress Falls more books like this by Susan Sontag Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer. Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, Sontag has chosen more than 40 longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Epitaph of a Small Winner more books like this by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Susan Sontag (Foreword by) "I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who had died and is now writing." So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense ... see all copies from £7.00! new only from £9.13! \| first editions
17 view cover	Selected Stories of Robert Walser more books like this by Professor Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Translator), Susan Sontag (Foreword by) How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a Paul Klee in words, maker of droll, whimsical, tender, and heartbreaking verbal artifacts; an inspiration to such very different writers as Kafka and W.G. Sebald; ... see all copies from £9.91! new only from £10.05!
18 view cover	At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches more books like this by Susan Sontag, Paolo Dilonardo (Editor), Anne Jump (Editor) "At the Same Time" gathers 16 essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.27! \| first editions
19 view cover	Death Kit more books like this by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag's second novel follows a conventional but troubled young man through a self-incriminating investigation. It travels from upstate New York to New York City, and to the recesses of the American conscience, where the will to destroy may be the strongest impulse of all. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £8.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Antonin Artaud more books like this by Susan Sontag, Antonin Artaud A revolutionary figure in the literary avant garde of his time, Antonin Artaud is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writing comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historic novel, plays, essays on film, theater, art and literature, and many letters. Susan Sontag's selection conveys the genius of this singular ... see all copies from £10.93! new only from £20.52! \| first editions
21 view cover	Refusenik!: Israel's Soldiers of Conscience more books like this by Peretz Kidron (Editor), Susan Sontag (Preface by) see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.73!
22 view cover	Volcano Lover more books like this by Susan Sontag Based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson, this novel is about sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsession, and love. The author also wrote "The Benefactor", "Death Kit", "AIDS and its Metaphors" and "The Way We Live Now". see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Benefactor more books like this by Susan Sontag In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, "The Benefactor" leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world. 'Sontag's novel supplies a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of a certain bohemian demi ... see all copies from £1.53! new only from £5.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Way We Live Now more books like this by Susan Sontag, Howard Hodgkin (Editor) Susan Sontag's innovative tale about life in the age of AIDS consists entirely of a series of conversational fragments--on the phone, in coffee shops, at the hospital--among a group of friends who are discussing the plight of a friend with AIDS. The patient himself never appears, nor is the disease ever mentioned by name. For this story about a ... see all copies from £31.42! signed copies \| first editions
25	Cage - Cunningham - Johns: Dancers on a Plane more books like this by Susan Sontag, David Sylvester, Richard Francis see all copies from £6.80! new only from £66.03! \| first editions

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