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On Photography by Susan Sontag
$19.95 AUD
Category: Photography
This is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of
On Women: A New Collection of Feminist Essays from the Influential Writer, Activist and Critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
For the first time, On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood. A brilliant new collection of essays on the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation from highly-acclaimed author Susan Sontag. Often regarded as one of the most influential write ...Show more
Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag; David Rieff (Preface by)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I intend to do everything . . . I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly . . . everything matters!' This first selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947 - 1963) takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her ea ...Show more
Reborn : Early diaries 1947-1964 by Susan Sontag
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I intend to do everything ...I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly ...everything matters!' So wrote Susan Sontag in May 1949 at the age of sixteen, in the early pages of this selection from her private diaries written in her youth an ...Show more
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and mean ...Show more
Stories by Susan Sontag
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial Times The complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth century ...Show more
Stories (Susan Sontag) by Susan Sontag
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories- fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, p ...Show more
Styles Of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence", a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and "Trip to Hanoi", written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating acco ...Show more
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
$29.50 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Benefactor by Susan Sontag
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'.
The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of ...Show more
The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson, this novel is about sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsession, and love. The author also wrote "The Benefactor", "Death Kit", "AIDS and its Metaphors" and "The Way We Live Now".