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Synopsis
Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy based on the life of Alice James (1848-92), the brilliant sister of William and Henry James. The waters of depression closed over Alice James when she was nineteen; she tried to summon the courage to commit suicide, she suffered from a variety of vague and debilitating ailments, she went abroad, she stayed in bed, she kept a diary, and she died...at age forty-three. In Susan Sontag's play, Alice James merges imaginatively with the other great Alice of her period, the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. A tea party is convened where Alice is counselled with Emily Dickinson and Margaret Fuller and by two exemplary angry women from the nineteenth-century stage: Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis (from Giselle), and Kundry (from Wagner's Parsifal), the guilt-ridden woman who wants to sleep.
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Review
"Oddly eloquent."
--Bruce Weber, "The New York Times" "The dialog is terse and the action tense in this trenchant tale of imagination and feminine anger and grief.... Recommended for all drama and literature collections."
--"Library Journal"
Oddly eloquent.
The dialog is terse and the action tense in this trenchant tale of imagination and feminine anger and grief.... Recommended for all drama and literature collections.
Oddly eloquent.--Bruce Weber "The New York Times "
Oddly eloquent. Bruce Weber, "The New York Times"
The dialog is terse and the action tense in this trenchant tale of imagination and feminine anger and grief.... Recommended for all drama and literature collections. "Library Journal""
"Oddly eloquent." --Bruce Weber, The New York Times
"The dialog is terse and the action tense in this trenchant tale of imagination and feminine anger and grief.... Recommended for all drama and literature collections." --Library Journal
About the Author
Susan Sontag is the author of three novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit and the bestselling The Volcano Lover; a volume of stories, I, Etcetera, and several collections of essays, including the prize-winning On Photography. Her most recent books are The Way We Live Now, a story, The Volcano Lover, and a play, Alice in Bed. In 190 she received a five-year fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0099424819
- ISBN 13 9780099424819
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages118
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