Author:
Moser, Benjamin, author.
Edition Statement:First ECCO paperback edition.
ImprintNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
Imprint2019
Descriptionix 815 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Auction of souls -- The queen of denial -- The master lie -- From another planet -- Lower Slobbovia -- The color of shame -- The bi's progress -- The benevolent dictatorship -- Mr. Casaubon -- The moralist -- The Harvard gnostics -- What do you mean by mean? -- The price of salt -- The comedy of roles -- All joy or all rage -- Funsville -- Where you leave off and the camera begins -- God bless America -- Continent of neurosis -- Xu-Dan Xôn-Tac -- Four hundred lesbians -- China, women, freaks -- The very nature of thinking -- Quite unseduced -- Toujours fide`le -- Who does she think she is? -- The slave of seriousness -- Things that go right -- The word won't go away -- Why don't you go back to the hotel? -- Casual intimacy -- This "Susan Sontag" thing -- Taking hostages -- The collectible woman -- A serious person -- A cultural event -- The Susan story -- The Callas way -- The sea creature -- The most natural thing in the world -- It's what a writer is -- A spectator of calamities -- Can't understand, can't imagine -- The only thing that's real -- The body and its metaphors.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism." -- Provided by publisher.
Note: Awards2020 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries
