EAN: 9780241618011

ON MARRIAGE - DEVORAH BAUM GEBUNDEN

BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORKER AND KIRKUS 'Devorah Baum is a visionary
writer. Her intellectual depth  her emotional precision and her searing insight can only be
gathered under an old fashioned word: wisdom' Zadie SmithA shining exploration of why we marry
from writer and academic Devorah Baum For better or worse  for richer for poorer  till death us
do part ¿ we¿ve always done it and we¿re still doing it. Of all our cultural institutions 
marriage is the most ancient  but also the most puzzling. In this compelling and delightful
book  Devorah Baum examines the many meanings we have given to marriage  interweaving the
personal with insights from a host of writers  artists and thinkers. From Freud to Ferrante 
and One Thousand and One Nights to Fleabag  she looks at marriage in all of its forms ¿ from
act of love to leap of faith  and asks: what are we really doing when we say `I dö? Both
celebration and critique  On Marriage is a guide like no other to the landscape of marriage. 'A
hugely thought-provoking  witty  warm tour around every significant writer and thinker on love
to have emerged since Adam and Eve' Alain de Botton

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