{"product_id":"9780312428501","title":"Reborn : Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eReborn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Susan Sontag\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, \u003ci\u003eReborn\u003c\/i\u003e (1947-1963) reveals one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, fully engaged in the act of self-invention. Beginning with a voracious and prodigious fourteen-year-old, \u003ci\u003eReborn\u003c\/i\u003e ends as Sontag, age thirty, is finally living in New York as a published writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating document of Sontag's apprenticeship, charting her earnest quest for education, identity, and voice . . . What slowly emerges . . .  is a sense of Sontag's ferocious will. . . . She wanted to be a writer and would do almost anything to make that happen.” —\u003ci\u003eDarryl Pinckney, The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A portrait of the artist as a young omnivore, an earnest, tirelessly self-inspecting thinker fashioning herself into the phenomenon she will be . . . Her journal is her true first book, the story of a woman struggling with her consciousness.” —\u003ci\u003eRichard Lacayo, Time magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A revelation . . . As do all the best critics, Sontag gave us new metaphors for how to read and see. Fabulously, surprisingly, \u003ci\u003eReborn \u003c\/i\u003eshows she used that skill to understand her own pell-mell life.” —\u003ci\u003eJohn Freeman, NPR.org\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What's fascinating . . . is that the journal reveals and adolescent and, later, a young woman, in whom 'ambition'--in this case, an overpowering yearning to be surrounded by and immersed in literature and culture--vastly outeweighed, and seems to have overpowered, 'sexuality.' As she herself puts it in the last entry of this journal, 'intellectual wanting' was the equal of 'sexual wanting' ” —\u003ci\u003eDaniel Mendelsohn, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312428501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40633938116814,"sku":"9780312428501","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_fce417d0-fd1e-4559-9142-eb74cec110c0.jpg?v=1638929086","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312428501","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}