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Title: Love's Work Condition: New ISBN-10: 0241645492 EAN: 9780241645499 ISBN: 9780241645499 Publisher: Penguin Classics Format: Paperback Type: Paperback Release Date: 14/03/2024 Description: 'This small book contains multitudes' Marina Warner 'For those who have suffered for and in love, this may prove to be one of the most useful books they will ever read' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
An extraordinary, uncompromising and consoling celebration of a life - through childhood, faith, family, love, friendship, pain and loss - written as its author was facing her own mortality
Gillian Rose was a star academic, acclaimed as one of the most dazzling and original thinkers of her time. Told that she had incurable cancer, she found a new way to explore the world and herself. Tender, heartbreakingly honest and written with moments of surprising humour, Love's Work is the exhilarating result.
In this short, unforgettable memoir, Rose looks back on her childhood, from the young dyslexic girl, torn between father and stepfather, to the adolescent confronting her Jewish inheritance. As an adult, Gillian Rose proves herself a passionate friend, a searcher for truth, a woman in love and, finally, an exacting but generous patient.
Intertwining the personal and the philosophical, Rose meditates on faith, conflict and injustice; the fallibility and endurance of love; our yearning for independence and for connection to others. With droll self-knowledge ('I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs,' Rose writes) and with unsettling wisdom ('To live, to love, is to be failed'), Love's Work asks the unanswerable question: how is a life best lived? Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 6mm Item Weight: 89g Author: Gillian Rose Contributor: Madeleine Pulman-Jones (Introduction by) Genre: Biography Topic: Society & Culture, Personal Development, Medicine, Philosophy & Spirituality Book Series: Penguin Modern Classics Release Year: 2024 Missing Information?
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