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Swimming in the Volcano

Bob Shacochis

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Swimming in the Volcano won the National Book Award for First Fiction. On the fictional island of St. Catherine, an American expatriate becomes unwittingly embroiled in an internecine war between rival factions of the government. Into this potentially explosive scene enters a woman he once loved and lost, but who remains a powerful temptation—one that proves impossible to resist. Both an enchanting love story and a sophisticated political novel about the fruits of imperialism in the twentieth century, Swimming in the Volcano is as brutal and seductive a novel as the world it evokes.

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Publisher
Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN-13
9780802199317
Topics
Love and romancePolitical conflict and imperialismCaribbean expatriate life

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