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Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 2008
On Sale: December 9, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0374100748
EAN: 9780374100742
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
"I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating experienceβdoes it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painfulβI 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. This, the first of three volumes of her journals and notebooks, presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City. Reborn is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of Americaβs greatest writers and intellectuals, teeming with Sontagβs voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the young Sontagβs complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itselfβall filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday circumstance.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - January 22, 2009
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