In the Name of Love: A Study of Sexual Desire - Softcover

Tweedie, Jill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860645895 ISBN 13: 9781860645891

Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

All for love, and nothing for reward. Is love the rosy, many-splendored thing that poets proclaim--or is it something altogether darker and more disturbing? Jill Tweedie’s eloquent and disarming account of her own experience of love vividly illustrates how painfully and slowly she learned a truth very different from the popular myth. She explores the very nature, process, and purpose of this most powerful of human forces--and the wrongs that have been done in its name over the centuries--and concludes that perhaps love is not all we need. This is both a searing portrait of love (and the passion it inspires) and a deeply personal and affecting account of this mysterious force and its effect on one woman’s life.

About this title

About the Author:

Jill Tweedie was a columnist on the Guardian and twice "Woman Journalist of the Year". She died in November 1993.

Review:

“Jill Tweedie's book is marvellous reading, a brilliant, amusing and giant step along the way.” —Nancy Friday

“Often funny, never dull . . . this is a memorable work.” —Margaret Drabble

About this edition

• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1860645895
• ISBN 13: 9781860645891
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208