All about love: anatomy of an unruly emotion - Softcover

APPIGNANESI, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844085902 ISBN 13: 9781844085903

Publisher: Virago, 2011

Synopsis

Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. He has us singing in the rain or tearing our hair out. Or duelling with his shadows, hate, jealousy and loss. This book tangles with the paradoxes of love through the span of our lives - from rapturous love to love in 'marriage', in the family and in friendship. It investigates love's shifts and continuities from the Greeks to the present and examines our present hypersexualized predicament. Drawing on a wide range of sources, ALL ABOUT LOVE shows us how without the varying attachments love puts in place, we would have little of our individuality, less literature, and arguably no society. In her brilliant new book, prize-winning author of MAD, BAD AND SAD: WOMEN AND THE MIND DOCTORS, Lisa Appignanesi searches for the meaning of an emotion.

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About the Author

Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and grew up in France and Canada. A novelist and writer, she is former deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, chair of the Freud Museum and president of English PEN.

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844085902
• ISBN 13: 9781844085903
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416