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Death Kit - by Susan Sontag (Paperback)

Death Kit - by  Susan Sontag (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>First published in 1967, <i>Death Kit</i>--Susan Sontag's second novel--is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, it offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"In <i>Death Kit </i>Susan Sontag has written a terrifying black novel with the fierce unsettling thrust of a Kafka-esque fable. It is a truly awesome book, forged from a stark in which staccato sentences and near-documentary observations are fused into a brilliantly sustained style." --<i>Boston Globe</i> <p/>"It seems an impertinence merely to recommend this book for its literary qualities.<i> Death Kit</i> is an experience beyond definition, part novel, part thriller, part philosophy, part dream." --<i>Douglas M. Davis, The National Observer</i> <p/>"<i>Death Kit</i> is a strange and wonderful book, a ritual exorcising of modern terrors, a dream book of love and death . . . Sontag conjures up scenes of sordid everyday life that are as brutal and macabre as anything in Raymond Chandler or Nathaniel West." --<i>Frederic Tuten, Vogue</i> <p/>"This novel is 'real art'--disconcerting, absorbing, entertaining (in the Greek sense of the verb; to grip), and extremely unnerving. One can only say, in the most direct way: read it." --<i>Doris Grumbach</i> <p/>"<i>Death Kit</i> . . . is a powerful visionary novel and a remarkable achievement. Miss Sontag has written an extraordinary novel, a Kafka-ish nightmare of an American Jederman, which proclaims at once her soaring talent and her profound pessimism." --<i>John Barkham, Saturday Review</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Susan Sontag</b> is the author of four novels, <i>The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, </i> and <i>In America</i> (winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction). She has also published a collection of stories, several plays, and five works of nonfiction, among them <i>On Photography</i> and, most recently, <i>Where the Stress Falls</i>. Her books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.

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