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After serving time as a freelance intellectual, Susan Sontag, author of some famous ruminations on culture and politics (Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will) as well as a few famously difficult works of fiction (The Benefactor), has issued a good read. The Volcano Lover, a novel set in 18th- century Italy and featuring historical as well as fictional characters, has found a popular audience. It appears on the list this week at No. 6. FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 Gerald's Game 7 Stephen King, Viking, $23.50 2 Waiting To Exhale 13 Terry McMillan, Viking, $22 3 The Pelican Brief 25 John Grisham, Doubleday, $22.50 4 Possessing The Secret Of Joy 12 Alice Walker, HBJ, $19.95 5 Fatherland 10 Robert Harris, Random House, $21 6 The Volcano Lover 1 Susan Sontag, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22 7 All That Remains 2 Patricia D. Cornwell, Scribners, $20 8 Colony 8 Anne Rivers Siddons, HarperCollins, $20 9 Rum Punch 3 Elmore Leonard, Delacorte, $21 10 The Bridges Of Madison County 3 Robert James Waller, Warner, $14.95
NONFICTION
1 The Silent Passage: Menopause 13 Gail Sheehy, Random House, $16 2 Truman 11 David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $30 3 Diana: Her True Story 9 Andrew Morton, Simon & Schuster, $22 4 Earth In The Balance: Ecology And The Human Spirit 8 Sen. Al Gore, Houghton Mifflin, $22.95 5 The Last Tsar: The Life And Death Of Nicholas II 4 Edvard Radzinsky, Doubleday, $25 6 A Return To Love 28 Marianne Williamson, HarperCollins, $22.50 7 The Measure Of Our Success 8 Marian Wright Edelman, Beacon, $15 8 Harvey Penick's Little Red Book 8 Harvey Penick & Bud Shrake, Simon & Schuster, $19 9 Marilyn: The Last Take 2 Peter Harry Brown & Patte B. Barnham, Dutton, $23 10 How To Satisfy A Woman Every Time... 30 Naura Hayden, Bibli O'Phile, $14.95
