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ALL ABOUT LOVE ANATOMY OF AN UNRULY EMOTION

Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

by (author) Lisa Appignanesi

Publisher
McArthur & Company
Initial publish date
Oct 2012
Category
General, General, History
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552789575
    Publish Date
    Oct 2012
    List Price
    $29.95

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Description

Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. He has us singing in the rain or tearing our hair out. Or dueling with his shadows, hate, jealousy and loss. This book, from the award-winning author of MAD, BAD AND SAD: WOMEN AND THE MIND DOCTORS, 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 predicaments.

About the author

Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and grew up in Canada and France. A prize-winning novelist and writer, she is a former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. She is the author (with John Forrester) of the classic study Freud's Women, the Charles Taylor Prize shortlisted Losing the Dead, and the award-winning Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors. Lisa lives in London, England.

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