Foreword David Rieff (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the stated first hard cover edition, first printing (full number line) in a very good (not price-clipped) dust-jacket. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding and jacket are bright and fresh in appearance. A sharp copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. This posthumous volume gathers sixteen essays and addresses written in the last years of Susan Sontag's life. A consummately fearless thinker, Sontag's writings published here reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty. She considers the works of writers from the little-known Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin to the greats, such as Nadine Gordimer. Sontag also addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. 224p.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), London, 2007. First U.K. edition. First printing (with the "1" number line). A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy with price (£18.99) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Foreword by Sontag's son, David Rieff. Literature-S.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 2007. xvii, 235pp. Book and unclipped dust jacket both in excellent condition. The jacket is covered with removable clear plastic for protection. "Susan Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance and deep curiosity about art, politics and the writer's responsibility to the world have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays written in the last years of Sontag's life, which reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, and on political activism as an ethical duty, and boldly address the dilemmas of post-9/11 America. A passionate, compelling work from an American writer at the height of her powers.".