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Figes found her interviewees in "differing social classes and random areas of Britain", and if there is a bias in her sample, it is towards those already inclined to thinking and talking. But her interviews stick in the mind because Figes is right: She says at the outset that her book is not a handbook, but it is full of wise advice.
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As she listens to the stories her interviewees tell her, and uses them to illustrate her arguments, she brings her subject to life with passion and sense. A child of divorce herself, and now married with children, Figes is strongly pro-monogamy, though she strives to remain open-minded.
Initially Grose seems more devil-may-care, more allied to the libido than the kids. Her book is about love, not lifelong partnership.
But then again, after a discussion of the sex lives of gibbons, she suggests that monogamists "may find themselves at the cutting edge of experimental romance", simply because their task is so difficult. Society books Romance books reviews. Order by newest oldest recommendations. Show 25 25 50 All.
No More Silly Love Songs: A Realist's Guide to Romance. Anouchka Grose
Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded. Falling in love is a complicated, messy, mad endeavour - and staying in love is even worse.
But even though we know that it will probably all end in tears or, at best, tight-lipped tolerance we continue to pursue it, believe in it, and lose sleep and friends over it. In this nimble and original exploration of love's hidden motivations and hideous manifestations, Anouchka Grose tries to get to the heart of its hold over us, along the way examining relationships between famous couples from Amy and Blake to Antony and Cleopatra, and drawing on personal anecdotes and medical case studies, as well as the love affairs celebrated in books, films and music, and the theories about love offered by philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and a spot of light neurobiology.
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