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In America : a novel
- Title
- In America : a novel / Susan Sontag.
- Author
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
- Supplementary Content
- http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2000.html
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 00-16087 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 387 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's bestselling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Lady Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In her enthralling new novel-once again based on a real story-Sontag shows us our own country on the cusp of modernity. In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. The novel portrays a West that is still largely empty, where white settlers confront native Californians and Asian coolies. The image of America, and of California-as fantasy, as escape, as radical simplification-constantly meets a more complex reality. The commune fails and most of the emigres go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage. In America is a big, juicy, surprising book-about a woman's search for self-transformation, about the fate of idealism, about the world of the theater-that will captivate its readers from the first page. It is Sontag's most delicious, most brilliant achievement."--Publisher's description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Utopian fiction.
- Western fiction.
- Awards (note)
- National Book Award, Fiction, 2000.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-16087
- ISBN
- 0374175403
- 9780374175405
- 0965245403
- 9780965245401
- LCCN
- 99054641
- OCLC
- 42863090
- Author
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
- Title
- In America : a novel / Susan Sontag.
- Imprint
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- National Book Award, Fiction, 2000.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-16087