In America - Couverture rigide

Sontag, Susan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374175403 ISBN 13 : 9780374175405

Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Sontag Susan

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0374175403
• ISBN 13: 9780374175405
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432