The Volcano Lover
A Romance
$25.28
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2009
Summary
Sontag achieved late bestselling success with this popular novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics.
A historical romance, Sontag’s book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag’s novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and love.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141190112 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141190116 |
| Author: | Susan Sontag |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 315g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
‘A panoramic, passionately feminist examination of the changing shape of Western civilisation since the Age of Enlightenment. Sontag’s book is a sweeping, exquisitely detailed picture of Europe in the final decades of the eighteenth century.’ Chicago Sun-Times ‘The Volcano Lover seems a novel Susan Sontag was destined to write, a shift from the moral intelligence of the essayist to the intelligent heart of the novelist.’ The Nation
About The Author
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.
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