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The Benefactor
  • Published: 17 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141190099
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99

The Benefactor

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30 Jan 2014
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17 Aug 2009
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New to Penguin Modern Classics for Sontag's first novel

The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'.
  • Published: 17 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141190099
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.
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