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# Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag

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Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag

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## Customer Reviews

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    Regarding The Pain Of Sontag
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2014*

There are few books that literally I couldn't put down. This was one.A warts and all portrait of one of the most brilliant, polarizing personalities in the second half of the 20th Century, it gives you a remarkable sense of what she was like to be around, if little sense of her accomplishments. This book reminded me of Boswell's Life of Johnson, with a "you are there" immediacy, without having to worry if you are accomplished enough to be in the presence of this Great Woman. Nunez's ambivalent memories  of Sontag are beautifully presented: she damns with faint praise and praises with faint damns alternatively.I recall seeing Sontag introduce a reading by WG Sebald at Barnes and Nobles on Union Square, and seeing her at a screening of a film when the Public Theater still showed them and wondering what it would have been like to converse with her. This book gives one of the fullest and seemingly truthful pictures of what that experience would have been like.The most vituperative reviews of this book have come from mostly male reviewers who clearly continue to have an issue with Sontag and what they see as her unearned fame, while they, blighted souls, are relegated to the dustbin of history. (Check out the Washington Post review for one). However, if you want to know why reading Sontag is worth your time, check out the Library of America's recent volume of her best work (neglecting, unfortunately, REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS). Then you will understand why this fascinating portrait is so riveting.

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    Witty and perceptive portrait of a public intellectual and a New York City era
  

*by W***C on Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2020*

I loved Ingrid Nunez's book "The Friend" so much that I was curious about her other books. This is the first one that I read besides "The Friend," and it is excellent. It is about a frenemy of Nunez's, Susan Sontag, who loomed very large in American intellectual culture in the 1970s, and who mentored Nunez when she was trying to make it as a young writer. It is a portrait of a brilliant woman who also could be very, shall we say, challenging. Nunez's portrait is entertaining, perceptive and more than a bit cruel . . . as Sontag could apparently be, as well. It is also about the passing of time and how, in relationships, overawe can shift into a more mature perspective. Anyone interested in gossipy, vivid, dishy portraits of flamboyant public figures, and what it is like to be close with them. will enjoy this.

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    Up close and personal with Susan
  

*by L***K on Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020*

This was like getting to be a fly on the wall in Susan Sontag's apartment over the course of a few years. Nunez doesn't hold back. She isn't a gossip, nor does she trash Sontag. She just puts it out there, what she observed in their close relationship. And Nunez is a brilliant writer who sees plenty and puts it down clearly and engagingly. The book gets into both Sontag's personal habits AND her literary work. I gobbled this one up!

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