In America

In America by Susan Sontag


ISBN
9780099473213
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
400
Dimensions
130 x 199mm

A Novel.

In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's greatest actress, emigrate to the united states and travel to California to found a "utopian" commune outside the village of Anaheim. Maryna, who has renounced her career for this venture, is accompanied by her small son and her husband, an aristocrat in revolt against his family; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. Sontag's gripping narrative shows us an exotic, still largely empty, up-for-grabs southern California, with European newcomers lording it over native Californians and Native Americans.

When the commune fails and most of the emigres return to Poland, Maryna stays, learns English, and - as Marina Zalenska - forges a new, even more triumphant career on the American stage. A diva on a par with Sarah Bernhardt, Maryna soon forms her own company and crisscrosses the country in her private railroad car, year after year, eventually playing opposite Edwin Booth, the great American actor of the age.

'In America' is a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. Sontag starts from a story located in the past to create a fictional world full of contemporary resonance. It is about many things: a woman's search for self-transformation; the fate of idealism; a life on the theatre; the many varieties of love; and, not least of all, stories and storytelling itself.
March Book Frenzy (Online Only)
22.36
RRP: $27.95
20% off RRP


This product is unable to be ordered online. Please check in-store availability.
Instore Price: $27.95
Enter your Postcode or Suburb to view availability and delivery times.

Other Titles by Susan Sontag

On Photography
22.99
18.39
20% Off
Styles of Radical Will
32.99
26.39
20% Off
Under the Sign of Saturn
29.99
23.99
20% Off
Sontag On Film
29.99
23.99
20% Off
On Women
35.00
28.00
20% Off
Stories Collected Stories
24.99
19.99
20% Off

You might also like

A Little Life
22.99
17.99
22% Off
The Lovely Bones
32.99
14.99
55% Off
Norwegian Wood
22.99
18.39
20% Off
Kafka On The Shore
22.99
18.39
20% Off
The Bronze Horseman
22.99
18.39
20% Off
The WindUp Bird Chronicle
22.99
18.39
20% Off
Sputnik Sweetheart
22.99
18.39
20% Off
The Satanic Verses
22.99
18.39
20% Off
The Summer Garden
22.99
18.39
20% Off
Atonement
22.99
18.39
20% Off
The Time Travelers Wife
22.99
18.39
20% Off
The Elephant Vanishes
22.99
18.39
20% Off
Montana 1948
16.95
13.56
20% Off
The Longest Memory
22.99
18.39
20% Off
After Dark
22.99
18.39
20% Off
Dance Dance Dance
22.99
18.39
20% Off
A Fine Balance
24.99
19.99
20% Off
A Wild Sheep Chase
22.99
18.39
20% Off
The God Of Small Things
22.99
18.39
20% Off

RRP refers to the Recommended Retail Price as set out by the original publisher at time of release.
The RRP set by overseas publishers may vary to those set by local publishers due to exchange rates and shipping costs.
Due to our competitive pricing, we may have not sold all products at their original RRP.