by Susan Sontag
First published 2017
In this stunning collection, Susan Sontag brings her formidable intellect to bear on the short story form. From allegorical parables to autobiographical fragments, these biting vignettes capture life's fleeting moments and private obsessions. Sontag's precise, unsentimental prose lays bare the complexities of the human condition, drawing the reader into worlds of loss, desire, and quiet desperation. Beneath the elegant surface, these stories pulse with a fierce, uncompromising honesty that challenges and illuminates.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, adult-fiction, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: intimate, thought-provoking, unsentimental
Tropes: challenging-illuminating, precise-prose
Period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century
320 pages · Hardcover · Farrar, Straus and Giroux