Great Writers Great Loves: The reinvention of love in the twentieth century
Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 298 pp
Non-fiction
Making the bed
by Rachel Buchanan •
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.
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