Illness as Metaphor

Sontag, Susan

First edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1978. Hardcover, 88 pp. Binding is tight. Ownership signature of free endpaper. Dust jacket has some wear on bottom edge, and some offsetting at the top of flaps, but is lovely and clean.

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Why it's in the Cabin

A first edition of this important work of critical theory that draws deeply from the first hand experience of being a patient and an ill woman.

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Susan Sontag

A preeminent American writer, cultural critic, filmmaker, and political activist, and one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers. Sontag's intellectual rigorous writing, challenging to conventional thought, and precise, lucid prose, was always imbued with a strong moral and ethical imperative.