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Much Ado about Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You about Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personal
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Title: Much Ado about Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You about Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personal
Author: Jack Murnighan
ISBN: 9781451621242
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 224
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: This smart and charming hybrid of lit and love is filled with hilarious relationship advice borrowed from the most famous characters in literature. From Dido to Jane Eyre, the characters of great literature are trying to figure out how to have healthy, happy relationships--with varying degrees of success--just like the rest of us. But the world's best-known heroes and heroines didn't go through all their trials and tribulations for naught--and now, thanks to Much Ado About Loving, we can learn from their foibles, misadventures, and eventual triumphs. Much as things have changed since the days when Jane Austen was writing, a lot about love has stayed the same. And so timeless literary classics contain many great lessons about romance that are as relevant today as they ever were. In this unique relationship guide full of humor and pathos, Maura Kelly and Jack Murnighan reflect on the renowned novels that have given them the most insight into their romantic lives. In chapters like Lightbulb in August: How to Have a Clue When He's Just Not That Into You, they use Faulkner to discuss early warning signs a relationship isn't going to work out. In Infinite Gesticulating: Why Do Men Talk So Much? they cite David Foster Wallace as an example of the male propensity to bloviate, but also have some suggestions for how to deal with it. Witty, wise and well-read in equal measures, Kelly and Murnighan will appeal to lovers of Candace Bushnell as much as to hard-core literary types with their entertaining, erudite, and engaging style.
Author: Jack Murnighan
ISBN: 9781451621242
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 224
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: This smart and charming hybrid of lit and love is filled with hilarious relationship advice borrowed from the most famous characters in literature. From Dido to Jane Eyre, the characters of great literature are trying to figure out how to have healthy, happy relationships--with varying degrees of success--just like the rest of us. But the world's best-known heroes and heroines didn't go through all their trials and tribulations for naught--and now, thanks to Much Ado About Loving, we can learn from their foibles, misadventures, and eventual triumphs. Much as things have changed since the days when Jane Austen was writing, a lot about love has stayed the same. And so timeless literary classics contain many great lessons about romance that are as relevant today as they ever were. In this unique relationship guide full of humor and pathos, Maura Kelly and Jack Murnighan reflect on the renowned novels that have given them the most insight into their romantic lives. In chapters like Lightbulb in August: How to Have a Clue When He's Just Not That Into You, they use Faulkner to discuss early warning signs a relationship isn't going to work out. In Infinite Gesticulating: Why Do Men Talk So Much? they cite David Foster Wallace as an example of the male propensity to bloviate, but also have some suggestions for how to deal with it. Witty, wise and well-read in equal measures, Kelly and Murnighan will appeal to lovers of Candace Bushnell as much as to hard-core literary types with their entertaining, erudite, and engaging style.
