In America

Name: In America
Price: 9.99 EUR
Author: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780141976488

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Susan Sontag

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Paru le : 02/05/2013

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her... > Lire la suite

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The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska's subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.

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Date de parution : 02/05/2013
Editeur : PENGUIN
Collection : Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN : 978-0-14-197648-8
EAN : 9780141976488
Format : ePub
Nb. de pages : 400 pages

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- Pages : 400
- Protection num. : Contenu protégé

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Biographie de Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She is also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
She died in December 2004.