The Resource The course of love : a novel, Alain de Botton
The course of love : a novel, Alain de Botton
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- Summary
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- We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children but no long-term relationship is as simple as happily ever after. "The Course of Love" is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence
- How does love survive and thrive in the long term? In Edinburgh, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love, get married, have children. But this is their story after the first flush of infatuation. As Rabih and Kirsten reform their ideals under the pressures of an average existance, they discover that love is a skill that needs to be learned, and not just experienced
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501134258
- Label
- The course of love : a novel
- Title
- The course of love
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Alain de Botton
- Subject
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- trueHusband and wife
- trueInterethnic marriage
- trueLove
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Marriage -- Fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueParenthood
- Romance fiction
- trueScotland
- trueCommunication
- Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction
- trueEdinburgh, Scotland
- trueExtramarital affairs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children but no long-term relationship is as simple as happily ever after. "The Course of Love" is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence
- How does love survive and thrive in the long term? In Edinburgh, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love, get married, have children. But this is their story after the first flush of infatuation. As Rabih and Kirsten reform their ideals under the pressures of an average existance, they discover that love is a skill that needs to be learned, and not just experienced
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10494592
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- De Botton, Alain
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Married people
- Man-woman relationships
- Marriage
- Edinburgh (Scotland)
- Label
- The course of love : a novel, Alain de Botton
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501134258
- Lccn
- 2015028864
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Stock number
- BRO-copy20160629-069-R
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn918616385
- (OCoLC)918616385
- 432010
- Label
- The course of love : a novel, Alain de Botton
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501134258
- Lccn
- 2015028864
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Stock number
- BRO-copy20160629-069-R
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn918616385
- (OCoLC)918616385
- 432010
Subject
- trueHusband and wife
- trueInterethnic marriage
- trueLove
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Marriage -- Fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueParenthood
- Romance fiction
- trueScotland
- trueCommunication
- Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction
- trueEdinburgh, Scotland
- trueExtramarital affairs
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