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Stories: Collected Stories
'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial TimesThe complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth centurySusan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life, dramatizing Sontag's private griefs and fears.Stories collects all of Sontag's short fiction for the first time. This astonishingly versatile collection showcases its peerless writer at the height of her powers. For any Sontag fan, it is an unmissable testament to her creative achievements.'Sontag is one of the most influential critics of her generation' New York Review of Books
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About the author
Susan Sontag
229 books5,449 followersSusan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature, and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne’s College, Oxford.
Her books include four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America; a collection of short stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and nine works of nonfiction, starting with Against Interpretation and including On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, Where the Stress Falls, Regarding the Pain of Others, and At the Same Time. In 1982, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published A Susan Sontag Reader.
Ms. Sontag wrote and directed four feature-length films: Duet for Cannibals (1969) and Brother Carl (1971), both in Sweden; Promised Lands (1974), made in Israel during the war of October 1973; and Unguided Tour (1983), from her short story of the same name, made in Italy. Her play Alice in Bed has had productions in the United States, Mexico, Germany, and Holland. Another play, Lady from the Sea, has been produced in Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Korea.
Ms. Sontag also directed plays in the United States and Europe, including a staging of Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the summer of 1993 in besieged Sarajevo, where she spent much of the time between early 1993 and 1996 and was made an honorary citizen of the city.
A human rights activist for more than two decades, Ms. Sontag served from 1987 to 1989 as president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the advancement of literature, from which platform she led a number of campaigns on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers.
Her stories and essays appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary publications all over the world, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Art in America, Antaeus, Parnassus, The Threepenny Review, The Nation, and Granta. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages.
Among Ms. Sontag's many honors are the 2003 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the 2003 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 2001 Jerusalem Prize, the National Book Award for In America (2000), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Photography (1978). In 1992 she received the Malaparte Prize in Italy, and in 1999 she was named a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government (she had been named an Officier in the same order in 1984). Between 1990 and 1995 she was a MacArthur Fellow.
Ms. Sontag died in New York City on December 28, 2004.
Her books include four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America; a collection of short stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and nine works of nonfiction, starting with Against Interpretation and including On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, Where the Stress Falls, Regarding the Pain of Others, and At the Same Time. In 1982, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published A Susan Sontag Reader.
Ms. Sontag wrote and directed four feature-length films: Duet for Cannibals (1969) and Brother Carl (1971), both in Sweden; Promised Lands (1974), made in Israel during the war of October 1973; and Unguided Tour (1983), from her short story of the same name, made in Italy. Her play Alice in Bed has had productions in the United States, Mexico, Germany, and Holland. Another play, Lady from the Sea, has been produced in Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Korea.
Ms. Sontag also directed plays in the United States and Europe, including a staging of Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the summer of 1993 in besieged Sarajevo, where she spent much of the time between early 1993 and 1996 and was made an honorary citizen of the city.
A human rights activist for more than two decades, Ms. Sontag served from 1987 to 1989 as president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the advancement of literature, from which platform she led a number of campaigns on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers.
Her stories and essays appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary publications all over the world, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Art in America, Antaeus, Parnassus, The Threepenny Review, The Nation, and Granta. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages.
Among Ms. Sontag's many honors are the 2003 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the 2003 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 2001 Jerusalem Prize, the National Book Award for In America (2000), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Photography (1978). In 1992 she received the Malaparte Prize in Italy, and in 1999 she was named a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government (she had been named an Officier in the same order in 1984). Between 1990 and 1995 she was a MacArthur Fellow.
Ms. Sontag died in New York City on December 28, 2004.
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November 8, 2018
This was at parts brilliant, at parts a bit underdeveloped and confusing. Sontag is known for her essay writing but once I saw that she has written short stories too, I needed to pick this up. All the stories are so different from each other. Some of them feel more like experiments instead of finished short stories, and some are some of the best short stories I have read in a very long time. So yes, a mixed bag and very difficult to rate. I haven't picked up any nonfiction by her so I am keeping my fingers crossed that her essays will be as brilliant as some of the stories in this.
April 1, 2019
Esperava muito mais da Sontag. Nunca lhe tinha lido a ficção e não me deslumbrou.
O primeiro texto é soberbo, sobretudo porque não estou certa de que seja o relato de um evento real (li os diários dela contemporâneos desse episódio e nem uma só entrada sobre o assunto...). A partir daí é sempre a descer com ligeiras e pontuais subidas.
O primeiro texto é soberbo, sobretudo porque não estou certa de que seja o relato de um evento real (li os diários dela contemporâneos desse episódio e nem uma só entrada sobre o assunto...). A partir daí é sempre a descer com ligeiras e pontuais subidas.
November 19, 2024
2.5
Die Kurzgeschichten waren mir so egal, nur die erste ist haften geblieben, in der zwei Jugendliche auf ihren Lieblingsautoren Thomas Mann treffen und bei ihm zu Kaffee und Kuchen eingeladen werden
Die Kurzgeschichten waren mir so egal, nur die erste ist haften geblieben, in der zwei Jugendliche auf ihren Lieblingsautoren Thomas Mann treffen und bei ihm zu Kaffee und Kuchen eingeladen werden
May 19, 2018
Until Stories, I had only known Susan Sontag‘s work as an essayist. However, when it came to my attention that Penguin Random House was publishing Stories, in 2017, I felt compelled to know this other side of Sontag’s writing.
The author wrote these stories to fathom the world she lives in, to find her place in it and to understand her mind and thoughts.
Sontag's voice and writing style varies throughout these eleven short stories. One of my favourite from this collection, called Pilgrimage, is perhaps the most traditional. Sontag reveals the first great encounter of her life: the day she met Thomas Mann. She was only fifteen years-old. However, as I said, her register changes completely throughout the book. The influence of science fiction or of the New French Novel is explicit in other texts, for instance.
Although I loved some of the tales, there were others that weren’t so successful, in my opinion. Old Complaints Revisited – another allegory – was a very dull text to read. I nearly gave up on that story.
Overall, I think Susan Sontag was one of the greatest intellectuals of last century and that is enough reason to recommend Stories. It’s a book one slowly savours and apprehends.
I’d like to thank Penguin Random House UK for sending me a copy of the book.
For more reviews, follow me on Instagram: @booksturnyouon
The author wrote these stories to fathom the world she lives in, to find her place in it and to understand her mind and thoughts.
Sontag's voice and writing style varies throughout these eleven short stories. One of my favourite from this collection, called Pilgrimage, is perhaps the most traditional. Sontag reveals the first great encounter of her life: the day she met Thomas Mann. She was only fifteen years-old. However, as I said, her register changes completely throughout the book. The influence of science fiction or of the New French Novel is explicit in other texts, for instance.
Although I loved some of the tales, there were others that weren’t so successful, in my opinion. Old Complaints Revisited – another allegory – was a very dull text to read. I nearly gave up on that story.
Overall, I think Susan Sontag was one of the greatest intellectuals of last century and that is enough reason to recommend Stories. It’s a book one slowly savours and apprehends.
I’d like to thank Penguin Random House UK for sending me a copy of the book.
For more reviews, follow me on Instagram: @booksturnyouon
May 5, 2019
Sontag parece elegir las palabras una por una. La riqueza de su lenguaje es increíble, hace que se saboreen las oraciones, más allá de qué dicen. Sus cuentos me contrariaron, los disfruté mucho o nada. Algunas historias parecían apuntes esporádicos, desordenados, sin fundamento, con oraciones geniales dispersas por el texto. Otras historias abrumadoras, originales, divertidas, profundas, riquísimas. Me quedo con estas. Y con ganas de repetir.
May 10, 2021
My favourite story from the collection was ‘the letter scene’. along with some others it rlly touched me, and I loved her unconventional writing style. Perspective stitched together, one sided conversations etc. I did find sometime her message came quite convoluted but still enjoyed it. Sometimes overtly autobiographical sometimes not, I’m looking forward to reading some of her non fiction essays.
October 15, 2021
Until I saw this collection in the public library racks, I'd never associated Susan Sontag with fiction. Other than her essays, my only other experience of reading her was the much acclaimed book 'On photography'. The first story itself, titled 'Pilgrimage', was quite a surprise, portraying her awkward meeting with Thomas Mann in her childhood days. The whole narrative leading up to the meeting, her anger with her friend for dialing up Mann's house directly and requesting for the meeting and her own wish for that meeting not to happen, all that make for an engaging read as much as their meeting with the writer, during which he is surprised at their "serious" reading at that young age.
The story 'Project for a trip to China', with its fragmented structure and its subject of travel, reminded me of 'Flights' by Olga Tokarczuk. 'Old complaints revisited' is also an elaborate plan, though not a fragmented narrative, with the protagonist planning to leave from a secret organisation. Structure-wise, the story 'Baby' is quite inventive with each successive chapter having a couple and taking turns meeting a counsellor to discuss an issue that has been simmering between them. We get to see only their answers to the counsellor's questions, not the questions themselves, and often end up playing a guessing game, until the reveal in the end. But, it has to be said that not every story in this collection is as engrossing as the best ones in the collection.
The story 'Project for a trip to China', with its fragmented structure and its subject of travel, reminded me of 'Flights' by Olga Tokarczuk. 'Old complaints revisited' is also an elaborate plan, though not a fragmented narrative, with the protagonist planning to leave from a secret organisation. Structure-wise, the story 'Baby' is quite inventive with each successive chapter having a couple and taking turns meeting a counsellor to discuss an issue that has been simmering between them. We get to see only their answers to the counsellor's questions, not the questions themselves, and often end up playing a guessing game, until the reveal in the end. But, it has to be said that not every story in this collection is as engrossing as the best ones in the collection.
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March 24, 2020“Histórias”de Susan Suntag reúne um conjunto de textos ficcionais, através dos quais o leitor capta dimensões íntimas e de certo modo autobiográficas, através de metáforas, entrecruzadas com abordagens mais pessoais. Obra constituída por onze contos que abordam temas diversos que mostram aspetos dramáticos da vida humana, nomeadamente, a perda, o suicídio de uma amiga, e o casamento, entre outros.
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October 22, 2025
Most people know of this author's essays and she's quoted all the time even on Tumblr (in the past) and Twitter (now), so imagine my surprise when I found out she had a short story collection too. It's nothing like what I imagined. The foreword said that they should feel contemporary in the year of 2017, but I feel like literary fiction has evolved very significantly in the past decade, so these stories feel dated but only in comparison to what's being published now.
What's really interesting is that the collection does not have a unifying theme save the fact that they were all written by a famous essayist. Each story is very different from the next. Some sound plausibly autobiographical ('Pilgrimage'), others are abstract and more challenging to figure out, with lots of references to the concept of Literature ('Project for a Trip to China', 'The Letter Scene', 'Unguided Tour', 'Debriefing') Some even feel like novellas disguised as short stories ('Old Complaints Revisited', 'Doctor Jekyll'). Some have dark humour and an unexpected bite ('Baby').
My favourite is 'American Spirits', which reads a little like a fable for repressed middle aged women, encouraging them to throw aside patriarchal institutions like wife-and-motherhood to live and love freely. I also loved 'The Dummy', in which a man creates a machine replica of himself to live his life and actually does it very well. His wife, children, and colleagues all believe it's him. One day, this dummy falls in love with a colleague and is driven to the heights of passion, ruining the man's plans of shirking his familial and societal duties. To solve this new problem, the man makes a second dummy. I would love to assign this story to a class of teenagers.
What's really interesting is that the collection does not have a unifying theme save the fact that they were all written by a famous essayist. Each story is very different from the next. Some sound plausibly autobiographical ('Pilgrimage'), others are abstract and more challenging to figure out, with lots of references to the concept of Literature ('Project for a Trip to China', 'The Letter Scene', 'Unguided Tour', 'Debriefing') Some even feel like novellas disguised as short stories ('Old Complaints Revisited', 'Doctor Jekyll'). Some have dark humour and an unexpected bite ('Baby').
My favourite is 'American Spirits', which reads a little like a fable for repressed middle aged women, encouraging them to throw aside patriarchal institutions like wife-and-motherhood to live and love freely. I also loved 'The Dummy', in which a man creates a machine replica of himself to live his life and actually does it very well. His wife, children, and colleagues all believe it's him. One day, this dummy falls in love with a colleague and is driven to the heights of passion, ruining the man's plans of shirking his familial and societal duties. To solve this new problem, the man makes a second dummy. I would love to assign this story to a class of teenagers.
August 6, 2025
Great but mostly in hindsight? She’s acting like Neil gaiman here
January 27, 2022
I’m finally done with Susan Sontag’s short stories and it’s hard to rate because some of the stories are breathtaking while the others are confusing and hard to follow.
While I liked her essays, short story writing doesn’t seem to be her strong point.
Although the following stories definitely stuck with me: American Spirits, The Dummy, Baby and Doctor Jekyll. Especially, “Baby” you might think it’s a normal therapy session story but it’s actually more than that. It leaves you wondering about existence, mental health or whatever the hell Sontag felt like writing during the modern era.
This is the only striking quote for me:
What doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
I would recommend this to artists and fans of Sontag but read at your own risk because most of the stories are tough to read.
3.5 stars i guess
While I liked her essays, short story writing doesn’t seem to be her strong point.
Although the following stories definitely stuck with me: American Spirits, The Dummy, Baby and Doctor Jekyll. Especially, “Baby” you might think it’s a normal therapy session story but it’s actually more than that. It leaves you wondering about existence, mental health or whatever the hell Sontag felt like writing during the modern era.
This is the only striking quote for me:
What doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
I would recommend this to artists and fans of Sontag but read at your own risk because most of the stories are tough to read.
3.5 stars i guess
December 13, 2019
I’ve only ever known Susan Sontag as an essayist (an amazing one at that), so to read her fiction and witness a completely different side of her was an honour. Some of the stories in here were absolutely brilliant (Debriefing, Dummy, A Letter Scene come to mind) while others felt... confusing, fragmented, undeveloped, and a little disappointing. Nevertheless, reading this collection was a pleasure. It felt intimate, getting a glimpse of the uncertainty and fickleness of a woman who’s popularly known for her direct, trailblazing boldness.
November 28, 2023
Sorry girl. Fattade ingenting
Jag gillar Sontag såklart men hennes noveller var otroligt röriga. Det fanns ingen röd tråd och många kändes som koncept snarare än färdiga berättelser.
Jag gillar Sontag såklart men hennes noveller var otroligt röriga. Det fanns ingen röd tråd och många kändes som koncept snarare än färdiga berättelser.
June 6, 2024
znormalizujmy nie wyjaśnianie kontekstu ! osobiście uwielbiam Susan za pisanie w tym stylu i jeśli kiedykolwiek coś w życiu napiszę to za przyk��adem tej pani, dziękuję pięknie mwah mwah
June 26, 2024
Vissa va skitbra, vissa kändes bara som spridda tankar vilket jag inte va skitkåt på.
October 20, 2025
the first few stories didn't stick with me as much as the last clump did. Doctor Jekyll, The Way We Live Now, and American Spirits were my top three (The Way We Live Now easily takes first place).
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June 30, 2019
Al revés que la mayoría de la gente, lo primero que leo de Susan Sontag no es su obra ensayística, sino estas Stories. Y aun así no pude evitar caer en el prejuicio de que esta otra faceta suya, menos conocida y ya descrita en el prólogo como ocasional, estaría algo así como infradesarrollada. Vaya tontería, ¿no? Al final me ha venido incluso bien no tener demasiadas expectativas, porque de ese modo esta lectura ha acabado siendo una sorpresa más grata. Esta antología es como una caja de bombones surtidos que llevara desde el de chocolate con leche más clásico, hasta el más moderno y de diseño con sabor a gin tonic con cardamomo. Hay narraciones de corte tradicional y otras historias más experimentales. Hay recuentos autobiográficos, como la historia de la inesperada visita, cuando era adolescente, a su admirado Thomas Mann; hay, por ejemplo, un relato sobre un hombre que se hace construir un autómata a su imagen y semejanza para que lo suplante en sus obligaciones laborales y familiares, y también un desconcertante diálogo de unos padres con un psicoterapeuta, acerca de un hijo que es uno pero nunca parece el mismo. Diría que, también como pasa con los bombones, entre estos cuentos los hay que gustan más y otros menos, pero ninguno desmerece el conjunto. Esa habilidad del buen escritor que hace que uno avance con ganas, hasta con cierta ansiedad, desde las primeras palabras hasta las últimas de una historia, esa habilidad la tiene Susan Sontag más que de sobra. Habría podido seguir comiendo, digo leyendo, durante muchas más páginas.
May 18, 2020
(Rated down from 3.5/5)
This collection consists of all Sontag's short stories, many of which are semi-autobiographical (as editor Benjamin Taylor writes in his foreword, Sontag saw short stories as a way to dive into the personal).
Sontag is obviously a formidable writer, but not all these stories showcase her brilliance. There's a strong sense that she's using them to convey her own thoughts and feelings, and occasionally, these supposedly "underlying" ideas overwhelmed the narrative instead. Such less successful stories came across a bit fable-y, and while I didn't particularly hate being "preached" at, the transparency of it all did make me feel less engaged - I couldn't see the plot/characters as anything but channels through which Sontag voiced her opinions. In fact, some of them felt more like personal essays more than anything else.
For me, the more compelling stories were those which carried ideas that I personally identified with. Like 'Pilgrimage', which is about the fear of meeting your idols. Or 'The Dummy', which discusses the unbearable ennui everyday life can bring. And I can't post this review without talking about 'A Letter Scene', which I found to be an extremely moving examination of the written word as a vessel for human emotion, and how written communication can carry unique weight/significance.
All in all, this collection showed a different side of Sontag, which, while not completely mind blowing, was still really intriguing nonetheless.
This collection consists of all Sontag's short stories, many of which are semi-autobiographical (as editor Benjamin Taylor writes in his foreword, Sontag saw short stories as a way to dive into the personal).
Sontag is obviously a formidable writer, but not all these stories showcase her brilliance. There's a strong sense that she's using them to convey her own thoughts and feelings, and occasionally, these supposedly "underlying" ideas overwhelmed the narrative instead. Such less successful stories came across a bit fable-y, and while I didn't particularly hate being "preached" at, the transparency of it all did make me feel less engaged - I couldn't see the plot/characters as anything but channels through which Sontag voiced her opinions. In fact, some of them felt more like personal essays more than anything else.
For me, the more compelling stories were those which carried ideas that I personally identified with. Like 'Pilgrimage', which is about the fear of meeting your idols. Or 'The Dummy', which discusses the unbearable ennui everyday life can bring. And I can't post this review without talking about 'A Letter Scene', which I found to be an extremely moving examination of the written word as a vessel for human emotion, and how written communication can carry unique weight/significance.
All in all, this collection showed a different side of Sontag, which, while not completely mind blowing, was still really intriguing nonetheless.
November 9, 2018
I quote from the foreword of the book written by Benjamin Taylor "Craving more uncertainty than the essay allowed for, Sontag turned from time to time to a form in which one need only persevere, making up one's mind about nothing: the infinitely flexible, ever amenable short story." This is probably the reason why many of the stories in the book are difficult to read and to comprehend. I often find myself lost in her track of thought, confused by what is happening. Perhaps I am disadvaantaged being neither American nor lived in her time. My favourites are "pilgrimage" and "the dummy". In "pilgrimage" , I caught a glimpse of the genius writer in the making as she reminisced about her exploits as a teenager. In "the dummy", she made our fantasy of conjuring up a substitute to go through the motion of our dreary lives seems so possible. It was fun to read.
March 29, 2024
As an essayist, it is not surprising for Sontag to turn to stories as a personal medium of discovery. It’s very clear that most of these are written for herself, some parts only she can figure out. It reminded me of what little amateur scribbles I write when I need to process things that happen in my life, and it seems to me that she did the same. A very familiar yet very distant set of stories. I read it not with a critical lense toward her fiction-writing abilities, but as a window into the intimate parts of her soul, so I cannot say this review of mine has a lot to do with the style and prose itself. But even if you are only interested in the stories by themselves, I think they will satisfy that too.
February 26, 2023
Only knowing Susan Sontag’s diaries and essays so far, her short stories came somewhat as a surprise to me — didn’t expect that surreal, almost kafkaesk-ish writing style / content.
I especially loved the “The Letter Scene”, which is maybe more resembling her diary writing in its fragmentary style; as well as “Project for a Trip to China”.
Most stories, like “The Dummy”, “American Spirits” and most of all “Baby” I can’t say I ‘liked’ as in really liked and enjoyed; however they haunted me for quite some time after reading it — feeling uneasy, tense, like a shift in reality; which, in my eyes, is a great gem in writing.
I especially loved the “The Letter Scene”, which is maybe more resembling her diary writing in its fragmentary style; as well as “Project for a Trip to China”.
Most stories, like “The Dummy”, “American Spirits” and most of all “Baby” I can’t say I ‘liked’ as in really liked and enjoyed; however they haunted me for quite some time after reading it — feeling uneasy, tense, like a shift in reality; which, in my eyes, is a great gem in writing.
March 3, 2019
I'm still not sure how to rate this book, they are short stories after all and I can tell you the ones I loved and the ones that I'm not sure I understand. yet these stories are somewhat cohesive with each other in a way that is hard to explain without being too simplistic or too complicated. And I guess that's why I love and enjoy her writing and can only rate it with 5/5.
July 10, 2019
Anything after Proust is going to be a disappointment but thought these were absolute garbage when I read the first few. I persevered because it’s Susan Sontag and there were some interesting common threads and insights linking them together. The last couple are really good. I loved the ‘Baby’ story.
July 8, 2020
Mixed bag - some interesting ideas and styles, alongside some really tedious and confusing reads.
Having read 70% of the book during the summer, returning to it 6 months later I found myself unable to remember much detail from the previous stories mostly because they just aren't interesting enough to retain.
Having read 70% of the book during the summer, returning to it 6 months later I found myself unable to remember much detail from the previous stories mostly because they just aren't interesting enough to retain.
February 14, 2019
3.5 collections of stories are always tricky. Some of these were 5* and really clever and we'll written, others quite honestly I couldn't get into at all and had to slog my way through. The ones that were good, very very very good!
March 10, 2019
I particularly like Old Complaints Revisited, it almost reminded me of reading Renata Adler or some of the faster frenetic Eileen Myles writing like Afterglow. I guess I enjoy Sontag's essays more but these stories had interesting form and it was not an unpleasing read.
April 26, 2019
4,5/5 - absolutely brilliant collection of stories. All different in style, topics, characters and atmosphere. Some more light, some - more complicated.
My favorite are “The Dummy” and “Baby”, kept me on the edge of my seat
My favorite are “The Dummy” and “Baby”, kept me on the edge of my seat
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