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    <body><![CDATA[Let me be perfectly clear——I am a huge fan of Susan Sontag's criticism. &quot;Against Interpretation and Other Essays&quot;, &quot;On Photography&quot;, and &quot;Regarding the Pain of Others&quot; are books I go back to repeatedly for their ahead-of-their-time provocative points of view. After ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22099926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so full of intelligence. Her literary and historic references enlighten. Her character's introspection gives the reader questions to ponder and profundities to wrestle with. I liked her different uses of voice and narrative style throughout the book. It distinguished quite a bit between...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20054881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the 19th century, a Polish actress so brilliant and popular that she is an ersatz national hero, has a mid-career crisis. <br/><br/>?! I was expecting a book about America. Instead I let myself slide into Sontag's introduction in a glittery Krakow dinner party, a dreamy straddle before the stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13776800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think anyone else has read this book, but I recommend that you do. Susan Sontag (who has my birthday) is known for her social commentary-type writing.  This is a novel, a work of fiction and very enjoyable.  I got it at the Fresh Meadows library book sale for $2.  It's about a Polish actress...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/213651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The structure of this book is very strange, beginning with the author, who puts herself into the beginning pages and ending with the novel becoming a play. It is about a famous actress, told through her own thoughts, but also those around her; her lover who is a writer, her husband who has homosexua...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46256723">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have had this book sitting on my shelf for over a year.  It is a National Book Award Winner but a while back I read the prologue and it just didn't capture me, so I put it down.  <br/><br/>I finally got back to it and honestly it was a chore to read this book.  I really had to make myself finish...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76885223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent, excellent. Love historical novels because I get to learn something factual without having to read nonfiction. Ha! I particularly like Sontag's take on the main character given her feminist proclivities. I found the cultural differences between Europe and America quite interesting at the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80986786">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really did not like Chapter Zero. More to the point, I didn't like that there was a Chapter Zero. However, after reading the whole book I appreciate more its presence: while the ensuing chapters are stylistically very different there is a return at the end of the novel to stylistic innovation, rat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46441491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sorry to say that I've basically given up on this book. It drags on too long, has too many characters, and is not intriguing whatsoever. I almost made it halfway through, but in all honesty know it will be a struggle for me to try and finish it. I don't give up on books usually but this one struck m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56162307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The great late cultural critic, Susan Sontag also dwelled in the world of fiction, often with surprising results. This novel, truly the story of later 19th century America and the nature of immigration and migration is a marvelous story, ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought it would be so serious but no!  It is a classic immigrant drama in the tradition of American Tail.  And Fievel Goes West.  The characters are flat.  The main char, Maryna, is like Jenna Maroney in 30 Rock.  Blurgh.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book didn't grip me, perhaps because I wasn't in love with any of the characters. But it is so intelligent, its musings relevant, its way of playing with the form of a novel interesting. I still enjoyed the book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried time and again to read this book and can't really figure out why I didn't get totally into it.  The way in which the book is written is interesting because sometimes it is an omnipresence and other times it is a dialog that someone is having with another person, but you don't know what the o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13000166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maryna Zalenska, la más célebre de las actrices polacas, decide partir hacia América junto con su marido, su hijo, un joven escritor que la idolatra y varios amigos más, impulsados por la idea de construir una comunidad utópica. Pero allí descubrirán que la felicidad americana se construye de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20075150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[تصور می کنم سوزان سونتاگ تحت تاثیر عنوانی که به او دادند، رابط میان فرهنگ اروپایی و فرهنگ آمریکایی، این رمان را نوشته باشد. از شخصیت زن لهستانی رمان خوشم می آید اما بر...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[sontag was so clearly present throughout - she wrote herself into the structure. i loved that she was there.]]></body>
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