ILLNESS AS A METAPHOR
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1978. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 8.5 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 88. Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Just a hint of sunning along the top edge. Designer endpapers. Unmarked interior. Small sticker scar to top right corner of dustjacket. A couple of short closed trears along dustjacket's top-edge. Protected in mylar. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Item #100139
From the dustjacket flap: "The fantasies concocted around cancer, and around tuberculosis in earlier times, undergo close examination in Susan Sontag's brilliant new book, Illness as Metaphor. Her subject is the unreal and often punitive uses of illness as a figure or metaphor in our culture. Her point is that illness is not a metaphor, and that the most truthful way of regarding illness—and the healthiest way of being ill—is to resist such metaphoric thinking."
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