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Susan Sontag

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As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

The Medium is the Massage

Marshall McLuhan

At the Same Time

Regarding the Pain of Others

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Where the Stress Falls

Annie Leibovitz

Violent Legacies

Richard Misrach

Under the Sign of Saturn

Styles of Radical Will

Against Interpretation

The Volcano Lover

Biography

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

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