Death Kit - Softcover

Sontag, Susan

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637 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141190078 ISBN 13: 9780141190075

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2009

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A novel that offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience. It presents a narrative of the suffering of Dalton 'Diddy' Harron, told through his own observations. It brings the haphazard events of his life, including killing a railway worker and falling in love with a blind girl.

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'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 form in which staccato sentences and near-documentary observations are fused into a brilliantly sustained style.' Boston Globe

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'A Kafka-esque fable. It is a truly awesome book' Boston Globe

Dalton 'Diddy' Harron, thirty-three, divorced and mild-mannered, works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer and feels his life is running down. After a failed suicide attempt, he finds himself on a train and becomes involved with a young blind woman, and drawn towards madness and murder. Diddy's attempts to escape his actions and his demons draw him into an increasingly nightmarish, surreal world where reality and dream bleed into each other. Published in 1967, Susan Sontag's second novel is a blackly disturbing and compelling meditation on life, death and the relationship between them.

'A strange and wonderful book, a ritual exorcising of modern terrors, a dream book of love and death' Vogue

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