A collection of one of our most powerful intellectual's short
fiction
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Debriefing* collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction, a form she
turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges
from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with
problems not assimilable to the essay, her more customary mode. Here she
catches fragments of life on the fly, dramatizes her private griefs and
fears, lets characters take her where they will. The result is a
collection of remarkable brilliance, versatility, and charm. Sontag's
work has typically required time for people to catch up to it. These
challenging works of literary art--made more urgent by the passage of
years--await a new generation of readers. This is an invaluable record
of the creative output of one of the most inquisitive and analytical
thinkers of the twentieth century at the height of her power.