| At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches Contributor(s): Sontag, Susan (Author), Dilonardo, Paolo (Editor), Jump, Anne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0312426712 ISBN-13: 9780312426712 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: "At the Same Time" gathers 16 essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | Women Authors - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.56" W x 8.24" (0.53 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage. She writes of the freedom of literature, about courage and resistance, and fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. David Rieff describes his mother's passion in his foreword: She wanted to experience everything, taste everything, go everywhere, do everything. Indeed, if I had only one word with which to evoke her, it would be avidity. . . . I think that, for her, the joy of living and the joy of knowing really were one and the same. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dilonardo, Paolo: - Paolo Dilonardo contributed to At the Same Time from Picador.Jump, Anne: - Anne Jump contributed to At the Same Time from Picador.Sontag, Susan: - Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among then On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004.Rieff, David: - David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. During the nineteen-nineties, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Now a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, he has written extensively about Iraq, and, more recently, about Latin America. He is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. His memoir of his mother's final illness, Swimming in a Sea of Death, appeared in January 2008. Based in New York City, Rieff is currently working on a book about the global food crisis. |