In America

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"A tour de force A magical accomplishment by an alchemist of ideas and words, images and truth." — Michael PakenHAM, The Baltimore Sun
"In America displays Sontag in a relaxed, pleasure-seeking mode, guiding her characters through a long travelogue in time, specifically the beginnings of the gilded age in the brave new world. Here are sumptuous
theaters in Manhattan and hotels in San Francisco; a journey i.goo feet down into a silver mine in Virginia City, Nevada; cameo appearances by such luminaries as Henry James and the renowned Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth." —PAUL G RAY, Time magazine
"Inspired. . .In America [is] a counter-romance, alternately hilarious and tragic." — Christopher Kitchens, Vanitj Fair
"[/n America] has an invigorating spaciousness . . . packed with characters, incidents, and color, and combining mass appeal with high intelligence." —Walter Kirn, New York magazine
"Enough incident, psychology, local color, and fascinating detail to stock a flotilla... Tovább

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"A tour de force A magical accomplishment by an alchemist of ideas and words, images and truth." — Michael PakenHAM, The Baltimore Sun
"In America displays Sontag in a relaxed, pleasure-seeking mode, guiding her characters through a long travelogue in time, specifically the beginnings of the gilded age in the brave new world. Here are sumptuous
theaters in Manhattan and hotels in San Francisco; a journey i.goo feet down into a silver mine in Virginia City, Nevada; cameo appearances by such luminaries as Henry James and the renowned Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth." —PAUL G RAY, Time magazine
"Inspired. . .In America [is] a counter-romance, alternately hilarious and tragic." — Christopher Kitchens, Vanitj Fair
"[/n America] has an invigorating spaciousness . . . packed with characters, incidents, and color, and combining mass appeal with high intelligence." —Walter Kirn, New York magazine
"Enough incident, psychology, local color, and fascinating detail to stock a flotilla of popular novels, a couple of Ragtimes, and a brace of theatrical memoirs." —MiCHAEL SiLVERBLATT, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"What is wonderful about the book is . [the] counterpoint of novelist and essayist, of innocence and knowingness. From the knowingness comes another excellence of In America, its cat's cradle of meanings." —Joan Agocella, The New Yorker
"Vividly inquisitive . . .An exhilarating journey into the past, freighted with dazzling detail, the product of an endlessly inquisitive, historical imagination." —The Economist
Susan Sontag
is the author of three other novels. The Benefactor, Death Kit, and The Volcano Lover. She also wrote I, Etcetera, a collection of stories; several plays; and five works of nonfiction, among them On Photography and Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. She lives in New York Gitv.
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