This is a sequel to Susan Sontag's book "Illness as Metaphor". She extends her original theories to argue that our metaphors for AIDS and its effects may be damaging: they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms that may be unhelpful for sufferers and inaccurate for society as a whole.
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This is a sequel to Susan Sontag's book "Illness as Metaphor". She extends her original theories to argue that our metaphors for AIDS and its effects may be damaging: they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms that may be unhelpful for sufferers and inaccurate for society as a whole.
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. First printing. "Susan Sontag's now classic essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness as a figure or metaphor in our culture. " [from the jacket]. A clean unmarked copy.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). An essay reflecting the author's view considering how AIDS is encumbered and distorted by myth, metaphor, and attitude, seeing it as a 'plague' and something apocalyptic, and how such views rellect upon attitudes and views towards sexuality and catastrophe itself. Hardcover with dust jacket, 95pp. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. Stated first printing. A scuff on front flyleaf, a slight bit of pale foxing to page edges. VG/NF. Full cloth binding. 95pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Good in very good dust jacket. Some ink underlining and margin marks on some pages. Book is in solid condition. Sticker on front dust jacket flap. Clean dust jacket.
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