The Volcano Lover follows the fortunes of a British ambassador, the ravishing woman he marries, and the young British admiral with whom she falls in love. Set in 18th-century Naples and based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, the novel is peopled with many of the great figures of the day.
Under the Volcano begins on the Mexican Day of the Dead in 1939, the anniversary of Geoffrey’s death. Dr. Vigil and Jacques Laruelle, two of his friends, while themselves drinking, deplore the Dr.
The Volcano Lover: A Romance, a robust and ruminative historical novel, communicates the pure pleasure Sontag has taken in her subject — one of the most celebrated love triangles in the annals.
Engaging with Libby Burton’s Soft Volcano, winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, comes with a hint of danger, as any volcano should. Filled with highly inventive language and forever shifting layers of time and perspective, the collection returns and returns to the same figures—mothers, fathers, and “you” as lover, another—in what seems to be an attempt to turn a lifetime of.
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The problem of prediction became appallingly clear in 1985, when the Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz exploded, the heat melting millions of tons of glacier and burying 25,000 people in a river of mud. The scientists, too, have died, at a remarkable rate -- 23 in the past 21 years, six of them at another Colombian volcano, Galeras. That eruption was little more than a geological hiccup, but.