Death Kit - Softcover

Sontag, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099387115 ISBN 13: 9780099387114

Publisher: Vintage, 1994

Synopsis

Susan Sontag's second novel follows a conventional but troubled young man through a self-incriminating investigation. It travels from upstate New York to New York City, and to the recesses of the American conscience, where the will to destroy may be the strongest impulse of all.

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Review:

"In "Death Kit "Susan Sontag has written a terrifying black novel with the fierce unsettling thrust of a Kafka-esque fable. It is a truly awesome book, forged from a stark in which staccato sentences and near-documentary observations are fused into a brilliantly sustained style."-"Boston Globe" "It seems an impertinence merely to recommend this book for its literary qualities." Death Kit" is an experience beyond definition, part novel, part thriller, part philosophy, part dream."-Douglas M. Davis, "The National Observer" ""Death Kit" is a strange and wonderful book, a ritual exorcising of modern terrors, a dream book of love and death . . . Sontag conjures up scenes of sordid everyday life that are as brutal and macabre as anything in Raymond Chandler or Nathaniel West."-Frederic Tuten, "Vogue" "This novel is 'real art'-disconcerting, absorbing, entertaining (in the Greek sense of the verb; to grip), and extremely unnerving. One can only say, in the

About the Author:

Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America which won the National Book Award, 2000. She is also the author of I, etcetera, a collection of stories; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and five works of non-fiction, among them On Photography and Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0099387115
• ISBN 13: 9780099387114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320