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Original Title:	The Volcano Lover ISBN13 9780312420072
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	William Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton, Horatio Nelson
Setting:	Naples(Italy)

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Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love.

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Title	:	The Volcano Lover
Author	:	Susan Sontag
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2004 by Picador (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Novels. Literature

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Well I give up. I'm on page 172 and I can feel the lava hardening around my ankles as I read this book. Sontag's style is so thick she makes Iris Murdoch feel like a waltz in the park.I was so looking forward to learning more about this unusual relationship between Hamilton, his wife and Nelson but it is almost like she's avoiding the subject (which is perhaps how Hamilton handled it). Anyways with thousands of other books waiting on my shelves I can't get bogged down in something that so

An enjoyable historical fiction about the collector and volcanologist William Hamilton and his wife, Emma Hamilton. Sontag structures the novel around the life of W. Hamilton as he serves as the British ambassador in Sicily during the late 18th and early 19th century. Readers at all familiar with this time in Italian history will enjoy these segments. The second half of the novel focuses more on Emma Hamilton's affair with the famous naval admiral Horatio Nelson. The book ends with a series of

The dramatic love triangle between Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma, and her lover, Lord Nelson, of the late 18th-century Naples is the basis of Sontag's historical "romance". The Cavaliere is an obsessive collector and fascinated with Mount Vesuvius which becomes symbolic of each characters' emotions at one point or another. When his beloved Catherine dies he falls in love with his nephew's lover, Emma, who ultimately finds true love not in the Cavaliere, but in "the hero", Lord Nelson. The

This is a DNF for me. Everything about it feels distant, pretentious, and I'm bored with it after just a few chapters. Moving onto something else...

While the story never called the principal characters (Lord Hamilton, his wife Emma Hamilton, her lover Horatio Nelson, even the King and Queen of the Two Sicilies) by name, it is very clear who is who, and this device, meant to signify that the author has the right to do what she wants with the characters, is definitely de trop. Written in a style which I usually do not love, this is nevertheless a gripping story with a lot of era-specific and generally human nuances.

I read this book while in Naples (it's set in Naples, late-18th-early 19th century). I think it's probably Susan Sontag's best novel. But then I don't really like her novels normally...[random trivia]--Susan Sontag's novels come up in the movie "Bull Durham" (Kevin Costner--or "Crash"--doesn't like them, either...)

Deep research on scandals and art works of aristocratic late 18th-century Naples around the time of the French Revolution made into good story/character study of English aesthete and collector William Hamilton, his two wives, and Admiral Nelson. Hamilton profited from the excavations at Pompeii, had an intimate view of the scatalogical excesses and executions perpetrated by the Neapolitan court, and participated in a few menages a trois. His second wife Emma progresses as a Barry Lyndon-type