
Description
Product Details
Publisher | Picador |
Publish Date | August 01, 2004 |
Pages | 432 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780312420079 |
Dimensions | 215.9 X 139.7 X 1.0 mm | 1.2 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
“A passionate and often radical novel of ideas that affords all the old-fashioned pleasures of a traditional historical novel.” —The New York Times
“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
“A panoramic, passionately feminist examination of the changing shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment. Sontag's book is a sweeping, exquisitely detailed picture of Europe in the final decades of the eighteenth century.” —Chicago Sun-Times
“A slippery, intelligent, provocative, and gripping book.” —The Washington Post Book World
“A novel Susan Sontag was destined to write, a shift from the moral intelligence of the essayist to the intelligent heart of the novelist. To her admirers, the novel will only confirm her originality, and perhaps win over a whole new set of readers. For The Volcano Lover is not just a thinking woman's (or man's) historical romance but a sly, luminously insightful, provocative novel.” —The Nation
“A brilliant performance.” —Chicago Tribune
“An historical tour de force. This tale of eighteenth-century romance and revolution is certain to charm readers who enjoy the postmodern potboilers of Umberto Eco and A. S. Byatt.” —Kirkus Review
Earn by promoting books