"Powerful and intimate collection" of 16 essays from a writer at the height of her powers. Bar a couple of very minor marks to edge of block, all is in VG+, crisp, clean and bright order throughout. No inscriptions. Smart black boards, lightly bumped to lower corner, with bright silver tilting to spine. VG unclipped d/j.This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. xvii, 235pp
Susan Sontag immediately became a major figure of our culture with the publication in 1966 of the pathbreaking collection of essays Against Interpretation. She went on to write four novels, including In America (2000), which won the National Book Award for Fiction, as well as a collection of stories, several plays, and seven subsequent works of nonfiction, among them On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978), and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003). Her many international honors included the Jerusalem Prize (2001) and the Friedenspreis (Peace Prize) of the German Book Trade (2003). She died in New York City on December 28, 2004.