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Informationen zum Autor Alain de Botton is the author of Essays in Love! The Romantic Movement! Kiss and Tell! How Proust Can Change Your Life! The Consolations of Philosophy! The Art of Travel! Status Anxiety! The Architecture of Happiness! The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work! A Week at the Airport! Religion for Atheists! The News: A User's Manual! The Course of Love and The School of Life among many others. Alain is a bestselling author in 30 countries. He lives in London! where he runs The School of Life and Living Architecture. Klappentext Twenty years after his bestselling debut Essays in Love! internationally acclaimed author Alain de Botton returns to fiction with a brilliant new novel about modern relationships What does it mean to live happily ever after? At dinner parties and over coffee! Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily -- it's a happy story! one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story! the answer to a question their friends never ask: what happened next? Rabih and Kirsten find each other! fall in love! get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact! it is only the beginning. From the first thrill of lust! to the joys and fears of real commitment! to the deep problems that surface slowly over two shared lifetimes! this is the story of a marriage. It is the story of modern relationships and how to survive them. Playful! wise and profoundly moving! The Course of Love is a delightful return to the novel by Alain de Botton! twenty years after his debut Essays in Love.
