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The Benefactor - by Susan Sontag (Paperback)

The Benefactor - by  Susan Sontag (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>The Benefactor</i>, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, <i>The Benefactor</i> leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world.' Sontag's novel supplies a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of a certain bohemian demimonde that flourished in France until quite recently. More important, <i>The Benefactor </i>is a novel about ideas-especially religious ideas-unlike any other: funny, acrobatic, disturbing, profound.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"An extraordinary, imaginative achievement that plays over the reader's senses with boldness, grace, and daring." --<i>John Hawkes</i> <p/>"A highly original, brilliant tale of a self-centered, solitary dilettante whose dreams take over his life." --<i>New York Post</i> <p/>"Originality, economy of language, brilliance . . . There is a Kafka-esque quality to<i> The Benefactor</i>." --<i>Newsday</i> <p/>"Remarkable . . . Its ancestors are Baudelaire, Kafka, and perhaps in the distance Dostoyevsky and Proust." --<i>John Wain</i> <p/>"A major writer . . . I especially admired how she can make a real story out of dreams and thoughts." --<i>Hannah Arendt</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 are translated into twenty-eight languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.

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