{"product_id":"9781429954303","title":"In America: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA glorious, sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of The Volcano Lover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's bestselling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In her enthralling new novel--once again based on a real story--Sontag shows us our own country on the cusp of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a \"utopian\" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. The novel portrays a West that is still largely empty, where white settlers confront native Californians and Asian coolies. The image of America, and of California--as fantasy, as escape, as radical simplification--constantly meets a more complex reality. The commune fails and most of the émigrés go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn America is a big, juicy, surprising book--about a woman's search for self-transformation, about the fate of idealism, about the world of the theater--that will captivate its readers from the first page. It is Sontag's most delicious, most brilliant achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn America\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168661029104,"sku":"9781429954303","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429954303_p0.jpg?v=1763747626","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429954303","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}