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In America

by Susan Sontag
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A glorious, sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of The Volcano Lover.
The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's bestselling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In her enthralling new novel—once again based on a real story—Sontag shows us our own country on the cusp of modernity.
In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. The novel portrays a West that is still largely empty, where white settlers confront native Californians and Asian coolies. The image of America, and of California—as fantasy, as escape, as radical simplification—constantly meets a more complex reality. The commune fails and most of the émigrés go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage.
In America is a big, juicy, surprising book—about a woman's search for self-transformation, about the fate of idealism, about the world of the theater—that will captivate its readers from the first page. It is Sontag's most delicious, most brilliant achievement.
In America is the winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction.

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Kindle Book

  • Release date: April 1, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781429954303
  • Release date: April 1, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781429954303
  • File size: 778 KB
  • Release date: April 1, 2010
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subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:7.5
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:6

A glorious, sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of The Volcano Lover.
The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's bestselling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In her enthralling new novel—once again based on a real story—Sontag shows us our own country on the cusp of modernity.
In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. The novel portrays a West that is still largely empty, where white settlers confront native Californians and Asian coolies. The image of America, and of California—as fantasy, as escape, as radical simplification—constantly meets a more complex reality. The commune fails and most of the émigrés go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage.
In America is a big, juicy, surprising book—about a woman's search for self-transformation, about the fate of idealism, about the world of the theater—that will captivate its readers from the first page. It is Sontag's most delicious, most brilliant achievement.
In America is the winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction.

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Fiction Literature