

- Married people, Man-woman relationships, Marriage, Fiction
We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children but no long-term relationship is as simple as happily ever after. "The Course of Love" is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. How does love survive and thrive in the long term? In Edinburgh, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love, get married, have children. But this is their story after the first flush of infatuation. As Rabih and Kirsten reform their ideals under the pressures of an average existance, they discover that love is a skill that needs to be learned, and not just experienced.
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Contemporary, contemplative, classical in form and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Alain De Botton
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Signal
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781501134258
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