by Susan Sontag · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224029124
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«The Volcano Lover: A Romance» is Susan Sontag's historical novel, published by Cape in hardback (420 pages, in English).
Set in eighteenth-century Naples, the novel follows Sir William Hamilton, an English collector, his wife Emma, and Lord Nelson. Love, desire, art, revolution, and the passion for collecting intertwine in a portrait of a turbulent society and relationships marked by loyalty, ambition, and the conventions of the era.
The first edition dates from January 1992; the publisher's categories place it in historical fiction and romance.
Aimed at readers of historical and romantic fiction, with an interest in the eighteenth century and real figures such as Lord Nelson.
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999).
