Intimate exploration of marriage's complexities.
"The Course of Love" dives deep into the truths of marital love beyond the fairy-tale endings. Alain de Botton invites you on a journey through the mundane and the profound aspects of a shared life. If you're seeking a book that portrays love with all its imperfections, joys, and challenges, offering a mirror to the nuances of your own relationships, this one's for you. It's a read that could change how you view love and its endurance through everyday struggles.
ISBN: 9780241962138
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $20.24
Authors:
Alain de Botton
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2017-01-26
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.02
(rated by 42980 readers)
Description
Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what comes after happily ever after? This is a love story with a difference. From dating to marriage, from having kids to having affairs, it follows the progress of a single ordinary relationship: tender, messy, hilarious, painful, and entirely un-Romantic. It is a love story for the modern world, chronicling the daily intimacies, the blazing rows, the endless tiny gestures that make up a life shared between two people. Moving and deeply insightful, The Course of Love offers us a window into essential truths about the nature of love.
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