Love's Apprentice

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"A splendid book! ,.. The moving chronicle of all women who made it through the last few decades." - Susan Isaacs Love's Apprentice offers a delightíul and completely originál map of modern love. Taking Casanova as her mentor, Shirley Abbott charts the amorous education of a woman coming of emotional age in the second half of the twentieth century. Her search for the romantic ideál began as a young girl in the South, informed by the movies and popular songs and fed by inevitable infatuations. It was the beginning of a lifelong journey that took her to Paris as a student, to New York as a young professional. It took her through the waxing and waning of marriage and the ardor of parenthood, to the triumphant realization that maturity offers liberation undreamed of in youth. Abbott's apprenticeship was a tutorial in the perennial questions of womanhood: Where do we find love? What bargains do we make to maintain it? Why are our expectations so often unfulfilled? A wry and generous... Tovább

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"A splendid book! ,.. The moving chronicle of all women who made it through the last few decades." - Susan Isaacs Love's Apprentice offers a delightíul and completely originál map of modern love. Taking Casanova as her mentor, Shirley Abbott charts the amorous education of a woman coming of emotional age in the second half of the twentieth century. Her search for the romantic ideál began as a young girl in the South, informed by the movies and popular songs and fed by inevitable infatuations. It was the beginning of a lifelong journey that took her to Paris as a student, to New York as a young professional. It took her through the waxing and waning of marriage and the ardor of parenthood, to the triumphant realization that maturity offers liberation undreamed of in youth. Abbott's apprenticeship was a tutorial in the perennial questions of womanhood: Where do we find love? What bargains do we make to maintain it? Why are our expectations so often unfulfilled? A wry and generous observation of the lusty humán comedy, Love's Apprentice will resonate deeply with all of us who, despite our hard-earned knowledge of the limitations of love, will not be cured of it. SHIRLEY ABBOTT is the author of Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South and The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory Unbound, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Born and raised in Hot Springs, Arkansas, she now lives in New York and Massachusetts. Vissza