Description
In this intimate, evocative memoir, Sigrid Nunez looks back on a pivotal period in her life shaped by her close relationship with the iconic Susan Sontag. Through loosely connected vignettes, she traces her own early ambitions as a writer while capturing the intellectual electricity of 1970s New York and the shifting contours of a friendship that both challenges and sustains. The book explores what it means to live alongside a singular creative force—how admiration, influence, and intimacy can intertwine with doubt, devotion, and artistic urgency. Nunez’s lyrical, closely observed style turns personal recollection into a meditation on the writing life and the lasting resonance of cultural ideas.
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paperback
Atlas & Co.
Published Jan 1, 2011
140 pages
ISBN: 9781935633228
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First Published
2011
Language
eng
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