by Susan Sontag · Macmillan USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312273200
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«In America» is Susan Sontag's historical novel, published by Picador in paperback in 2001 (398 pages, in English).
In 1876, a group of Poles led by the celebrated actress Maryna Zalezowska emigrates to the United States with the idea of founding a utopian commune in California. The novel follows its characters between Europe and America and explores the search for personal transformation, the fate of idealism, theatre and the different forms of love.
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 2000. Originally published that year, this Picador paperback edition is from 2001.
Aimed at readers of historical and literary fiction, with particular interest in works by female authors and titles for reading groups.
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999).
