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Essays in Love - Reviews


Francine Prose in The New Republic, 27 December 1993
In the preface to his treatise On Love, Stendhal breezily takes off running past those indolent earlier writers who dropped out of the game after cataloging only "400 or 500 of the successive emotions, so difficult to recognize, which go to make up this passion. More...

James Friel in Time Out,  27 October - 3 November 1993
A well-heeled young couple meet on a plane and instantly fall for each other. They make love on the first date and, over a space of time, their relationship thrives, falters and finishes almost as abruptly as it began. More...

Gabriele Annan in The Spectator, 30 October 1993
On a BA flight from Paris to London the narrator picks up Chloe who happens to be sitting in the next seat. He takes her out to dinner, they go bed together, fall in love and begin a serious affair. More...