'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the
astonishing scope potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial Times The
complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag one of the most brilliant and influential
writers of the twentieth century Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist
- inquisitive analytical fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life she also wrote
short stories: 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
