The Volcano Lover: A Romance

ISBN-13: 9780141190112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 432 str.

Susan Sontag

Opis

A historical romance novel based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the 18th century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilisation since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's book is a detailed picture of revolution, the face of nature, art and love.

O autorze

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 is 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.