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Boka handler om en den polske skuespillerinnen Maryna som i 1876 sammens med en gruppe polakker, emigrerer til California for å grunnlegge et utopisk samfunn. Maryna, som har ofret karrieren for dette, har med seg sin mann og lille sønn. I hennes følge er også en ung forfatter som er forelsket i henne. Når prosjektet mislykkes returnerer emigrantene til Polen, men Maryna blir. Hun lærer seg engelsk, og skaper seg en enda mer triumferende karriere på den amerikanske scene. En diva på høyde med Sarah Bernhardt. Hun danner sitt eget selskap og reiser rundt om i landet, år etter år, og til slutt får hun spille mot tidenes største amerikanske skuespiller.
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In America is Susan Sontag's bold, brilliant new novel - a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. As she did in her enormously popular novel The Volcano Lover, which recast the legendary love affair of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson in a fresh, provocative light, Sontag once again starts from a story located in the past to create a fictional world full of contemporary resonance.#11;In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's greatest actress, emigrate to the United States and travel to California to found a "utopian" commune - they think of it as a new Brook Farm - outside the village of Anaheim. Maryna, who has renounced her career for this venture, is accompanied by her small son and her husband, an aristocrat in revolt against his family; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. Sontag's gripping narrative shows us an exotic, still largely empty, up-for-grabs southern California, with European newcomers lording it over native Californians and Native Americans. When the commune fails and most of the émigrés return to Poland, Maryna stays, learns English, and - as Marina Zalenska - forges a new, even more triumphant career on the American stage. A diva on a par with Sarah Bernhardt, Maryna soon forms her own company and crisscrosses the country in her private railroad car, year after year, eventually playing opposite Edwin Booth, the greatest American actor of the age.#11;In America is about many things: a woman's search for self-transformation; the fate of idealism; a life in the theatre; the many varieties of love; and, not least of all, stories and storytelling itself. Operatic in the scope and intensity of the emotions it depicts (Minnie from Puccini's Girl of the Golden West makes a startling appearance) richly detailed and visionary in its account of America, and peopled with unforgettable characters, In America is Susan Sontag's largest, most astonishing achievment.
SUSAN SONTAG is the author of three other novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, and The Volcano Lover; I etcetera, a collection of stories; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and five works of non-fiction, among them On Photography and Illness As Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors. She lives in New York City.
Forlag Jonathan Cape
Utgivelsesår 2000
Format Innbundet
ISBN13 9780224040914
EAN 9780224040914
Genre Historisk litteratur
Omtalt tid 1800-tallet
Omtalt sted Veststatene
Språk Engelsk
Sider 387
Utgave 1
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