The Volcano Lover: A Romance, reprint ed.
by Susan Sontag

Anchor (New York): 1992. Trade paperback: x, 421 pages. ISBN-10: 0-312-42007-2 ISBN-13: 978-0312420079 Suggested retail price: $12.95 (US) Tags: Historical; Mainstream Tactical strength: [5/10]

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Good steady writing. Steady in the sense of very little variation -- in tone, pace, or style. In The Volcano Lover, Sontag examines the life of Sir William Hamilton, a Scottish diplomat and Britain's ambassador to the court of Naples from 1764-1800. Sontag examines his various collections and extends this discussion to an examination of the way he treated the people in his life. The story is interesting, and if factual, informative, but Sontag's constant, invariant narrative -- so uniform that she didn't want to interrupt it's flow with quotation marks -- makes this book a difficult one to finish.

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