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Susan Sontag
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National Book Award, Fiction, 2000
The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's best-selling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In this enthralling audiobook - once again based on a real story - Sontag shows us our own country on the cusp of modernity.
In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her.
The novel portrays a West that is still largely empty, where white settlers confront native Californians and Asian coolies. The image of America, and of California - as fantasy, as escape, as radical simplification - constantly meets a more complex reality. The commune fails and most of the émigrés go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage.
In America is a big, juicy, surprising audiobook - about a woman's search for self-transformation, about the fate of idealism, about the world of the theater - that will captivate listeners from the first chapter. It is Sontag's most delicious, most brilliant achievement.
©2000 Susan Sontag (P)2011 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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On Photography
- De: Susan Sontag
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 211
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality. When anything can be photographed, and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photograph freely, with no expectations of discovering what it means. This collection of six lucid and invigorating essays, with the most famous being "In Plato's Cave", make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,414
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hang in
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On Photography
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- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 211
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality. When anything can be photographed, and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photograph freely, with no expectations of discovering what it means. This collection of six lucid and invigorating essays, with the most famous being "In Plato's Cave", make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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De: Susan Sontag
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The Volcano Lover
- A Romance
- De: Susan Sontag
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
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5 out of 5 stars
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De: Susan Sontag
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Regarding the Pain of Others
- De: Susan Sontag
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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2 out of 5 stars
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- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch, Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reborn
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- De: Susan Sontag
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 29
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