In America
by:
Susan Sontag (author)
The story of "In America" is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of "Quo Vadis", Henryk Sienkiewicz, and...
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The story of "In America" is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of "Quo Vadis", Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and, Modrzejewska's subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374175405 (0374175403)
Publish date: March 1st 2000
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages no: 387
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Womens
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