Against Love: A Polemic
Book by Laura Kipnis
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"Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?" So begins Laura Kipnis's profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. ... Google Books
Originally published: 2003
Author: Laura Kipnis
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It is a series of observations and arguments exploring the weakness of the concepts of love and marriage as they are viewed today by mainstream U.S. culture.
A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won't injure you (well not severely); it's ...
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Laura Kipnis is the author of Against Love: A Polemic; How to Become A Scandal; The Female Thing; Bound and Gagged; and the upcoming Men: Notes from an Ongoing ...
The best polemic against love would be to mimic in prose the erratic and overheated behavior of its hapless practitioners: the rushes and excesses, the ...
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A polemic against love that is “engagingly acerbic … extremely funny…. A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that ...
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"Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?" So begins Laura Kipnis's profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for ...
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In this ragingly witty yet contemplative look at the discontents of domestic and erotic relationships, Kipnis ( Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the ...