I, Etcetera - Hardcover

Sontag, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374174024 ISBN 13: 9780374174026

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1978

Synopsis

In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays—the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"These short stories...establish Sontag's originality in story, her unique vision, her success with experiments in form." --Los Angeles Times

"A fine collection." --Houston Post

"Sontag travels our heartland and writes of it in a telling, shorthand way that is as unusual as it is trenchant." --Publishers Weekly

"All of the eight stories in Susan Sontag's first collection ... are worth reading or reading again. That she is remarkably intelligent, a true intellectual, is as apparent in her fiction as it is in On Photography and Illness as Metaphor."--Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; and five works of nonfiction, among them On Photography, which won the National Book Critics' Circle Award for criticism, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, and most recently, Where the Stress Falls. She lives in New York City. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0374174024
• ISBN 13: 9780374174026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246