Skip to content

Where the Stress Falls : Essays
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Where the Stress Falls : Essays Paperback - 2002

by Sontag, Susan

  • Used

Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer. Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, Sontag has chosen more than 40 longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas.

Description

Picador. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Used - Good
NZ$12.05
FREE Shipping to USA Standard delivery: 4 to 8 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Better World Books (Indiana, United States)

Details

  • Title Where the Stress Falls : Essays
  • Author Sontag, Susan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador, New York
  • Date 2002-11-09
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4912793-6
  • ISBN 9780312421311 / 0312421311
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Dewey Decimal Code 814.54

About Better World Books Indiana, United States

Biblio member since 2005
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Better World Books is the world's leading socially conscious online bookseller and has sold over 100 million books. Each sale generates funds for global literacy and education initiatives. We offer low prices, fast shipping, and have a 100% money back guarantee, if you are not completely satisfied.

Terms of Sale:

Better World Books wants every single one of its customers to be happy with their purchase. If you are not satisfied your purchase or simply find out that it was not the book you were looking for, please e-mail us at: help@betterworldbooks.com. We will get back to you as soon as possible with directions on how to return the book to our warehouse. Please keep in mind that because we deal mostly in used books, any extra components, such as CDs or access codes, are usually not included. CDs: If the book does include a CD, it will be noted in the book's description ("With CD!"). Otherwise, there is no CD included, even if the term is used in the book's title. Access Codes: Unless the book is described as "New," please assume that the book does *not* have an access code.

Browse books from Better World Books

First line

"I WHO WOULD BE nothing without the Russian nineteenth century...," Camus declared, in 1958, in a letter of homage to Pasternak-one of the constellation of magnificent writers whose work, along with the annals of their tragic destinies, preserved, recovered, discovered in translation over the past twenty-five years, has made the Russian twentieth century an event that is (or will prove to be) equally formative and, it being our century as well, far more importunate, impinging.

About the author

Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, including In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories; several plays, and five works of nonfiction, among them Against Interpretation and On Photography. Her latest book is Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into 28 languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.