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96 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780713990256
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: Not specified
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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding ce...
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96 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780713990256
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: Not specified
Description
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding ce...