Our Cheating Hearts: Love and Loyalty, Lust and Lies - Brossura

Figes, Kate

Brossura

ISBN 10: 184408728X ISBN 13: 9781844087280

Casa editrice: Virago, 2013

Riassunto

Most of us manage to be monogamous, most of the time. But most of us also know that adultery is the 'crime' we could imagine ourselves committing.

But does being 'faithful' mean the same to everyone? Why DO people have affairs?

Using real-life testimony from those who have 'cheated' and those who have been cheated on, alongside the most up to date research, this book looks at the big questions around love and commitment.

Kate Figes shows how in our progressive times monogamy has become the new ideal. Absolute fidelity in sexual love, above all, now stands as the primary symbol of commitment. But that has created new problems: increasing the allure of the affair, exacerbating the need for deceit; making trust harder; and highlighting the shame and the wounds of betrayal.

This book lifts the taboos, asks the tough questions, suggests that we can survive an affair and that it can lead to a better understanding of ourselves and our relationships. Monogamy is possible and many couples manage it either throughout their relationship or for long periods of time. But for the countless others a more honest and humane public debate around the subject of infidelity is essential. Our Cheating Hearts, by the author known and respected for charting the emotional territory of relationships, is that book.

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Recensione:

This book should be supplied free on the National Health, it would save the country a fortune (Helen Simpson for Couples)

Figes brings her subject to life with passion and sense (Susanna Rustin Guardian for Couples)

As absorbing as a good novel or a soul-baring talk with an old and trusted friend (Melissa Benn New Statesman for Couples)

Descrizione del libro:

Kate Figes, whose last book Couples drew back the curtain on relationships, now turns her gaze to a subject that will fascinate many - a riveting, revealing and shocking book on infidelity.

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 184408728X
• ISBN 13: 9781844087280
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272