The Birth Of Pleasure: A New Map of Love - Softcover
Birth of Pleasure A work of scholarship that examines love, asking why it is so often associated with tragedy and why the idea of pleasure is so often contaminated by loss. Full description
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"[A] hopeful vision of happiness and love." (Catherine Stimpson New York Observer)
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Love, like falling rain, can revive an arid life. But how can we find the love that brings true pleasure? How can we avoid the tragic love, with its lessons of sacrifice and loss, so deeply embedded in our culture?
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0099459612
- ISBN 13 9780099459613
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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