Illness as Metaphor
by susan sontag
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
Item Price
A$154.94A$139.45
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus And Giroux. New York. 1978. Near fine brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Similar near-fine unclipped ($5.95) jacket with minor shelf wear to edge protected with removable mylar cover. Signed in year of publication by the yr. 2000 National Book Award winner for Fiction. Metaphor, the symbolic representation of something else; is that how society views cancer and tuberculosis as more than a disease? It was originally presented as a lecture series at NYU. 8.5 x 5.5 in. 88 pg.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106
- Title
- Illness as Metaphor
- Author
- susan sontag
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 88
- Size
- octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- cancer, tuberculosis, TB, disease
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Lamplighter Library
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