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Alice in Bed

Alice in Bed Paperback - 1993 - 1st Edition

by Susan Sontag

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Alice in Bed
  • Author Susan Sontag
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 117
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY
  • Date 1993
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0374523851I3N10
  • ISBN 9780374523855 / 0374523851
  • Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 4.96 x 0.36 in (20.57 x 12.60 x 0.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - Drama, James, Alice - Drama
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93071280
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54

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From the rear cover

Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy based on the life of Alice James (1848-92), the brilliant sister of William and Henry James. The waters of depression closed over Alice James when she was nineteen; she tried to summon the courage to commit suicide, she suffered from a variety of vague and debilitating ailments, she went abroad, she stayed in bed, she kept a diary, and she died... at age forty-three. In Susan Sontag's play, Alice James merges imaginatively with the other great Alice of her period, the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A tea party is convened where Alice is counseled by Emily Dickinson and Margaret Fuller and by two exemplary angry women from the nineteenth-century stage: Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis (from Giselle), and Kundry (from Wagner's Parsifal), the guilt-ridden woman who wants to sleep. Alice in Bed is a play about the anguish and grief and rage of women, about mental traveling, about the triumphs and limitations of the imagination. It is a powerful and memorable addition to Susan Sontag's achievement as a writer.

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  • Booklist, 08/01/1993, Page 2031

About the author

Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories; several plays; and seven works of nonfiction. She died in New York City on December 28, 2004.