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    A Study Guide for Susan Sontag's "Way We Live Now"
    A Study Guide for Susan Sontag's "Way We Live Now"
    A Study Guide for Susan Sontag's "Way We Live Now"
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    A Study Guide for Susan Sontag's "Way We Live Now"

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    A Study Guide for Susan Sontag's "Way We Live Now," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535842495
    A Study Guide for Susan Sontag's "Way We Live Now"

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      A Study Guide for Susan Sontag's "Way We Live Now" - Gale

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      The Way We Live Now

      Susan Sontag

      1986

      Introduction

      Susan Sontag’s The Way We Live Now first appeared in the New Yorker in 1986. Narrated almost exclusively through dialogue, it tells of an unnamed man’s struggle with the AIDS through the reactions of his large circle of friends.

      Sontag began writing the story on the night she learned that a close friend had been diagnosed with AIDS. Very upset and unable to sleep, she took a bath; it was there that the story began to take shape. It was given to me, ready to be born. I got out of the bathtub and started to write very quickly standing up. I wrote the story very quickly, in two days, drawing on experiences of my own cancer and a friend’s stroke, she told Kenny Fries of the San Francisco Bay Times.

      Selected for the collection The Best American Short Stories of 1987 and also included in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties, The Way We Live Now was written at the time that the impact of the AIDS epidemic was felt throughout America and the rest of the world. As such, critics maintain that it truly represents the spirit of its time. The characters reflect on the sudden omnipresence of death in their community and dissect their own changing attitudes about morality and

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