Book description
Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. He has us singing in
the rain or tearing our hair out. Or duelling with his shadows, hate,
jealousy and loss. This book tangles with the paradoxes of love through
the span of our lives - from rapturous love to love in 'marriage', in
the family and in friendship. It investigates love's shifts and
continuities from the Greeks to the present and examines our present
hypersexualized predicament. Drawing on a wide range of sources, ALL
ABOUT LOVE shows us how without the varying attachments love puts in
place, we would have little of our individuality, less literature, and
arguably no society. In her brilliant new book, prize-winning author of
MAD, BAD AND SAD: WOMEN AND THE MIND DOCTORS, Lisa Appignanesi searches
for the meaning of an emotion. Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and
grew up in France and Canada. A novelist and writer, she is former
deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, chair
of the Freud Museum and president of English PEN.
