Private Novelist: Fiction Nurse & Patient Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor

Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor

She successfully stuck to that commitment until her mother fell ill

Doss uses humor to deal with the isolation that each of us experiences--not because we're alone

Marie Equi

Private Novelist: Fiction Nurse & Patient Sontag wrote Illness as MetaphorFrom the brilliant and incisive author of Mislaid "a writer of extraordinary talent and range" (Jonathan Franzen) whose "capacity for inventions is immense" (BookForum) comes a new collection of her earliest work: two wildly funny novellas (Sailing Towards the Sunset by Avner Shats and European Story for Avner Shats) available in one compact volume. Years ago, Nell Zink resolved to write a book for her friend, the Israeli novelist Avner Shats, that