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Title: The Course of Love

Author: Alain de Botton

Price: $10.00

ISBN: 9780241145470

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Year published: 2016

Paperback or Hardcover: Paperback

Condition: Very good condition

The Course of Love

$10.00Price
  • The Course of Love explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. We see, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter. Interwoven with their story and its challenges is an overlay of philosophy—an annotation and a guide to what we are reading. As The New York Times says, “The Course of Love is a return to the form that made Mr. de Botton’s name in the mid-1990s….love is the subject best suited to his obsessive aphorizing, and in this novel he again shows off his ability to pin our hopes, methods, and insecurities to the page.”

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