- Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Love
""The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life" we are told at the outset of Alain de Botton's On Love, a hip, charming, and devastatingly witty rumination on the thrills and pitfalls of romantic love.".
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Contemporary, spare, intimate and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Alain De Botton
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 231
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Atlantic Monthly Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780802142405
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Swiss writer, television presenter and entrepreneur. Writes a lot about love. Well.
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