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Title: Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0-374-28917-4 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 21 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: 'Nothing new except language, the ever found...'
Comment: My favorite piece in this book is 'Answers to a Questionnaire'-- vintage Sontag-- thinking, witnessing, and finally enlightening everything she must. Despite the self-loathing revealed by a number of American reviewers below who show themselves apparently ready to detest integrity itself, the naked truth comes clear and comes clear! Clear thinking may yet be the last frontier! A worthy argument for such is surely made in the pages of this book. It is even for those who are spiteful without cause to discover themselves lurking in the heart of this book, grevious as ignorance is, & wretched as spite becomes in the end. Listen-- vitriolic political sideswiping is as American as dumplings. Sontag, characteristically and sympathetically, not only notes its irrevelance, but conjures an antidote called moral patience, so no wonder all the shouts and curses against her! Making certain their own avenues of self-discovery venture nothing wiser than a hepped up, but sunless, hyper-nationalism wretchedly disguised as patriotism, it's unfortunately not surprising the chorus of disappoval this woman engenders. Thank goodness Sontag remains preoccupied with her Art!-- a living, teaching, redemptive art burnished, by now, to an holistic glow, as every page of this book bears witness. What in the world are you talking about??! -- SUSAN SONTAG IS AMERICAN TO THE CORE! I reckon that aspect of her identity contributes as much as any other of her native gifts to the beauty and usefulness of her art. Wake up, people!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Essays
Comment: Sontag is a great writer and if you love non-fiction writing (a la Joan Didion) then you will love this book. The essays cover a wide range of topics, including a discussion of some fellow writers. I highly recommend it!
One other thing: some of the posts here have absolutely nothing to do with Sontag's book. I thought this space was for book reviews, not political diatribes and ad hominem attacks.
Rating: 5
Summary: Vintage Sontag
Comment: Bravo Susan Sontag- great book, greater writer - her stature is directly proportional to the lengths her critics have gone to character-assassinate her. I now will buy the book! No, I'll buy two.
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Title: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0374248583 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312280866 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420218 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420080 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 09 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Conversations With Susan Sontag (Literary Conversations Series (Paper)) by Susan Sontag, Leland A. Poague ISBN: 0878058346 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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