Death Kit - Softcover

Susan Sontag

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140030832 ISBN 13: 9780140030839

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1970

Synopsis

First published in 1967, "Death Kit" is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, Susan Sontag's second novel offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience. The novel is a narrative of the suffering of Dalton 'Diddy' Harron, told through his own observations. He works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer, is thirty-three and divorced and a month ago tried to commit suicide. The haphazard events of his life, including killing a railway worker and falling in love with a blind girl, are brought to us through the lens of Diddy's own mind. We follow him through his journey to justify his actions and exorcise his inner demons, but we can see what is happening to Diddy only from inside his head, in the present, and the balance of his mind does not always bear close scrutiny.

About this title

From the Publisher

First published in 1967, Sontag's second novel is a classic of modern fiction as well as brilliant exploration of the recesses of the American conscience.

About the Author

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0140030832
• ISBN 13: 9780140030839
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320