{"product_id":"the-course-of-love-9781501134517","title":"The Course of Love","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHow Proust Can Change Your Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Course of Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. We see, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter. Interwoven with their story and its challenges is an overlay of philosophy—an annotation and a guide to what we are reading. As \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e says, “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Course of Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a return to the form that made Mr. de Botton’s name in the mid-1990s….love is the subject best suited to his obsessive aphorizing, and in this novel he again shows off his ability to pin our hopes, methods, and insecurities to the page.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41081601851598,"sku":"9781501134517","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/products\/9781501134517_1.jpg?v=1681431398","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.live\/products\/the-course-of-love-9781501134517","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}