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The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland''s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska''s subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.

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'A tour de force...A magical accomplishment by an alchemist of ideas and words, images and truth.' - Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun '[In America] has an invigorating spaciousness...packed with characters, incidents, and colour, and combining mass appeal with high intelligence.' - Walter Kirn, New York magazine

In America

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    A Paperback / softback by Susan Sontag

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 2 July 2009
      ISBN-13 9780141190105
      978-0141190105
      ISBN-10 0141190108
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland''s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska''s subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.

      Trade Review
      'A tour de force...A magical accomplishment by an alchemist of ideas and words, images and truth.' - Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun '[In America] has an invigorating spaciousness...packed with characters, incidents, and colour, and combining mass appeal with high intelligence.' - Walter Kirn, New York magazine

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