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The Romantic Movement by Alain De Botton (1995, Hardcover) 
The Romantic Movement by Alain De Botton (1995, Hardcover)
Publisher: Picador USA
Publication Date: 1995-06-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0312131593
ISBN-13: 9780312131593
Product ID: EPID2002678
Description: An exploration of a love affair, from first meeting to breakup, between Alice, an advertising executive, and Eric, a banker, supplemented by quizzes and line drawings. Interspersed throughout is commentary by philosophers from Descartes ...
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Synopsis
An exploration of a love affair, from first meeting to breakup, between Alice, an advertising executive, and Eric, a banker, supplemented by quizzes and line drawings. Interspersed throughout is commentary by philosophers from Descartes to Aretha Franklin.

Details
Publication Date:1995-06-01

Size
Length:326 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:17.6 oz

Publisher's Note
The author of On Love returns with the story of the ups and downs of an affair between Alice and Eric, complete with drawings and diagrams and a chorus of thinkers about love--from Descartes to Aretha Franklin.

Industry Reviews
"...sheds light on the nature of relationships....the method of telling much and showing little produces a good deal of wit, cogency, and humor."
New Yorker - John Updike

"Mr. de Botton borrows exuberantly, and well, from his forbears."
New York Times Book Review - Lisa Zeidner (06/11/1995)

"Though erudite, the book is never dryly academic when it draws on the heavyweights of the Western intellectual tradition to comment on the couple's modest workaday lives....Written both with ardor and with tongue in cheek, [this] is the product of a lavishly furnished mind and mischievous temperament."
San Francisco Chronicle (07/02/1995)

"...precocious in its tone and in its acquired wisdom."
John Updike

"De Botton's ruminative novel depicts an ill-fated love affair between two British yuppies. The narrator discusses the characters' behavior and its implications, bolstering his arguments with sources that range from 'Madame Bovary' to Aretha Franklin."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Charles Solomon (07/07/1996)

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