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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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    A Paperback / softback by Susan Sontag

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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.

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      '[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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