In America by Susan Sontag #literature dark and delirious novel set

dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse – a world that Margaret Atwood declared ‘soooo genius’

Cécile Périgord has confined her daughter Marguerite for her own good

Each chapter is a self-contained adventure into history

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In America by Susan Sontag #literature dark and delirious novel setThe story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen year old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska's subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.