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Sontag, Susan. IN AMERICA - Jonathan Cape 2000
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Book Code: 309
Net weight (kg): 0.910
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For sale is a very good hardback copy of the novel, In America by Susan Sontag, published in 2000 by Jonathan Cape.
| Title | In America |
|---|---|
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
| Edition | first edition, first printing |
| ISBN | 0-224-04091-x |
| copyright year | 2000 |
| weight (kg) | 0.910 |
| height (cm) | 24 |
| width (cm) | 16 |
| pages | 387 |
| cover price £/$ | 16.99 |
The book is a first edition, first printing as evidenced by a full numberline on the copyright page.
The book has brown boards and gold lettering. The boards have no knocks or signs of wear. Internally there are no marks or inscriptions. The pages are clean and white, have no tears or creases, and the binding is tight with some light rubbing to the spine ends.
The very good wrapper is complete showing the original cover price of £16.99.It has some creasing to the edges.
Overall a very good copy of a novel by a popular author.
The book is not an ex library book, it has no remainder marks or publisher's stamps.
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.
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.
'A tour de force...A magical accomplishment by an alchemist of ideas and words, images and truth.' - Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun
'[In America] has an invigorating spaciousness...packed with characters, incidents, and colour, and combining mass appeal with high intelligence.' - Walter Kirn, New York magazine
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