Susan Sontag
2) In America
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 23
Description
"The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's bestselling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Lady Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In her enthralling new novel-once again based on a real story-Sontag shows us our own country on the cusp of modernity. In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small...