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Sontag, Susan In America
PA The Franklin Library 2000 Limited First Edition Full-Leather SIGNED by the Author
As New in dark green morocco, lushly gilt-stamped on all sides. Raised bands on the spine. All page-edges gilt. Decorative endpapers and a sewn-in silk ribbon bookmark. 387pps. A flawless collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be opened (except for the signing) and yet to be read. SIGNED by the author exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Includes an introduction by Sontag that is not in the trade edition as well as a specially commissioned frontispiece by Paula Ziegenhagen Slick. Laid in is the publisher's placard describing the novel. Winner of The National Book Award in 2000.
"...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 émigrés 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..."
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150.00 USD
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