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Friendship : an exposé / Joseph Epstein.
LIBRA - Special HM1161 .E67 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Joseph, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epstein, Joseph, 1937---Friends and associates.
- Epstein, Joseph.
- Epstein, Joseph, 1937-.
- Friendship.
- Friendship in literature.
- Friends and associates.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 270 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
- Summary:
- The author sketches a witty and incisive anatomy of the modern friendship: its duties and requirements, the various kinds of friendships, the differences between male and female friendships, the complications marriage creates, and even what happens when sex enters the equation.
- Contents:
- A little taxonomy of friends
- A charming gift for false intimacy
- Best friends
- The quickest way to kill friendships
- Friends-who needs 'em?
- An extremely sketchy history of friendship
- Reciprocity, or is it obligation?
- A friendship diary : adulation, stimulation, obligation
- Pity is at the bottom of women
- Boys will be boys
- Petty details vs. eternal verities
- Disparate friends
- Cliques and clans and communities
- Talking the talk
- Techno-friendships
- Friendship's new rival
- Broken friendships
- Friendlessness
- Is there an art of friendship?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-258) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0618341498
- OCLC:
- 61169637
- Publisher Number:
- 9780618341498
- Online:
- Publisher description
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