{"product_id":"susan-sontag-carl-rollyson-9781628462371","title":"Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon","description":"This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer's life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag's newly released private correspondence--including emails--and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her best. The authors reveal as never before her early years in Tucson and Los Angeles, her conflicted relationship with her mother, her longing for her absent father, and her precocious achievements at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Papers, diaries, and lecture notes, many accessible for the first time, spark a passionate fire in this biography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The authors follow Sontag as she abruptly ends an early first marriage, establishes herself in Paris, and embraces the open lifestyle she began as a teenager in Berkeley. As a single mother she struggled with teaching at Columbia University and other colleges while aiming for a career as a novelist and essayist. Eventually she made her own way in New York City after acquiring her one and only publisher, Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Giroux. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her later years Sontag became a world figure, a tastemaker, dramatist, and political activist who risked her life in besieged Sarajevo. Love affairs with men and women troubled her. Diagnosed with cancer, she responded with determination, and her experience with illness inspired some of her best writing. This biography shows Sontag always craving \"more life\" at whatever cost and depicts her harrowing final decline even as she resisted terminal cancer. \u003ci\u003eSusan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated\u003c\/i\u003e presents in candid and stark relief a new assessment of a heroic and controversial figure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 162846237X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628462371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2017","brand":"Carl Rollyson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939398418687,"sku":"9781628462371","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_759069f0-58ad-43a5-916f-bfceabc71682.jpg?v=1681441257","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/susan-sontag-carl-rollyson-9781628462371","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}