The Volcano Lover: A Romance

Susan Sontag

The Volcano Lover: A Romance
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
17 August 2009
Pages
432
ISBN
9780141190112

The Volcano Lover: A Romance

Susan Sontag

‘Enchanting, always interesting, always entertaining …

a big, old-fashioned broth of a book’

John Banville, The New York Times

The British Ambassador at the court of Naples has only two passions

his precious art collection, and his fascination with volcanoes

until he agrees to care for his nephew’s discarded mistress. He acquires a new obsession in the shape of this beautiful, vulgar, carefree woman and eventually takes her for his wife. But when the heroic captain of the British Navy arrives in Italy, the affair that erupts between him and the ambassador’s wife threatens to throw everyone’s lives off course. Susan Sontag’s exquisite re-telling of the story of Nelson and Emma Hamilton is a powerful exploration of love and possession that, with its shifting voices and viewpoints, conjures up an entire age.
‘A great novel. It repeatedly scales heights of complex thought, passion and expression that few American writers ever approach, while reimagining a majestic love story in dazzling style’

Philadelphia Inquirer

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