Book summaryA Polish actress in America is the focus of Susan Sontag's fourth novel. Based on a true-life story, the novel traces the career of Maryna Dembowska who, gives up her career on the Polish stage to participate in the founding of a utopian community in California in 1876. When the experiment fails, Maryna carries on, making a new life for herself in America and returning to acting, finally teaming up with the famous actor Edwin Booth, who falls in love with her. The story is advanced by means of several unusual points of view, including a stage speech written by Maryna to Booth, and the diary kept by one of her husbands. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Media reviews"Susan Sontag's new novel is a brilliant and profound investigation into the fate of thought and culture in America. Like her last novel, THE VOLCANO LOVER, IN AMERICA masquerades as historical fiction, flaunting the stuff of drama and romance. It is something restless, hybrid, disturbing, original....Sontag gives us a convincing portrait of an artist who is losing her way, and it would be a pity if all the structural brilliance that surrounds her were to distract readers from her imperious, self-dramatizing and fallible character." |
In Americaby Sontang, Susan1stED, fiction, drama
Book description: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. 1stED, fiction, drama. 1st Edition, So stated, FINE in FINE Dust Jacket, Hardcover, Mylar protected. UNREAD in MINT condition. A kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. National book Award Winner. ISBN 0-374-17540-3.
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