{"product_id":"sempre-susan-a-memoir-of-susan-sontag","title":"Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag","description":"From the author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award.\n\"The masterpiece of the ‘I knew Susan’ minigenre\" – A.O. Scott, The New York Times\n\nA poignant, intimate memoir of one of America’s most esteemed and fascinating cultural figures, and a deeply felt tribute.\n\nSigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, blinding intelligence, and edgy personal style. Sontag introduced Nunez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating. Soon Nunez moved into the apartment that Rieff and Sontag shared. As Sontag told Nunez, “Who says we have to live like everyone else?”\n\nSontag’s influence on Nunez, who went on to become a successful novelist, would be profound. Described by Nunez as “a natural mentor” who saw educating others as both a moral obligation and a source of endless pleasure, Sontag inevitably infected those around her with her many cultural and intellectual passions. In this poignant, intimate memoir, Nunez speaks of her gratitude for having had, as an early model, “someone who held such an exalted, unironic view of the writer’s vocation.”\n\nPublished more than six years after Sontag’s death, Sempre Susan is a startlingly truthful portrait of this outsized personality, who made being an intellectual a glamorous occupation.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1594633347\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1594633347.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Nunez, Sigrid\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44496941121597,"sku":"BVV.1594633347.A","price":11.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1594633347-0.jpg?v=1794174251","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/sempre-susan-a-memoir-of-susan-sontag","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}