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Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, ''Reading'', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag''s own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, ''Seeing'', she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. And in the final section, ''There and Here'', Sontag explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer.

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 02/07/2009
    ISBN13: 9780141190211, 978-0141190211
    ISBN10: 0141190213
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, ''Reading'', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag''s own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, ''Seeing'', she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. And in the final section, ''There and Here'', Sontag explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer.

    Trade Review
    '[The essays] invariably also leave one with the urgent desire to read the book or see the painting, play, dance she describes. Her passion evokes that urgency...' Bookforum

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