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Making the bed

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August 2006, no. 283

Great Writers Great Loves: The reinvention of love in the twentieth century by Ann-Marie Priest

Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 298 pp

Making the bed

by
August 2006, no. 283

If this is love, then we are all in trouble. Addiction, infidelity, cruelty, violence, obsession, depression, repression, jealousy, impotence, the neglect of children and a whole lot of hysterical personal correspondence are features of the love affairs conducted by the eight writers who are the subject of this disconcerting book.

Rachel Buchanan reviews 'Great Writers Great Loves: The reinvention of love in the twentieth century' by Ann-Marie Priest

Great Writers Great Loves: The reinvention of love in the twentieth century

by Ann-Marie Priest

Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 298 pp

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