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In America

Susan Sontag

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#541 of 8,085 books · #97 in Historical Fiction

Won the National Book Award for Fiction (2000).

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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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780141976488
Topics
ImmigrationReinvention and ambitionTheater and performance

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