Young, Louisa The Book of the Heart ISBN 13: 9780385501736

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Book Of The Heart, The by Young, Louisa

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‘As intriguing and delightful as an afternoon spent rummaging through a well-stocked secondhand bookshop. An eclectic, colourful and often personal array of images of the human heart through history, for those who love cultural trivia.’ Observer

‘Wonderfully eclectic. Young’s range of reference is enormous and she is breezily at ease with it, moving nimbly from Burt Bacharach to Jeremiah in one sentence. The book is beautifully produced, there are numerous pictures, some startlingly strange, many beautiful. But although the book looks like a box of chocolates, and offers correspondingly assorted and delicious satisfactions, it is harder-centred than it appears. Young’s commentary on her material is astute and illuminating.’ Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times

‘“The Book of the Heart” makes emotive reading. It entranced me, and caused a lifestyle revolution. While reading it, I stopped using salt or butter, gave up booze, started jogging and, for the first time ever, started making doting daily phone calls to my Significant Other, hundreds of miles away. This ambitious book could so easily be pretentious, but instead remains disarming, canny and beguiling. It is like Jack Horner's dream of a Christmas pie: wherever you put in your thumb, you will dig out the juiciest of plums.’ Independent

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'Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.'
Psalm IV

How come St Valentine had nothing to do with love and romance? Why did Richard the Lionheart want his heart and his bones buried thousands of miles apart? How did Plato's image of the heart having 'chambers' lead to mediaeval nuns having mystic visions of wedding Christ in sacred bedchambers? Look into The Book of the Heart and see: it is a treasure-chest brimming with bright jewels. It is rich in meaning in a time quick to be heartless. From the scientist's heart of disease and transplants to the artist's heart of string and arrows, from the symbolic heart of roses and maps to the religious heart of sacrifice and sutra, LOUISE YOUNG stitches together a book of the heart that is utterly entrancing and enjoyable. With a perspective that encompasses the wisdom of the West and the East, of the ancient and the modern, this is a book, like the heart. About giving and for giving.

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  • PublisherDoubleday
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 0385501730
  • ISBN 13 9780385501736
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages354
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