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Love and Lies: And Why You Can’t Have One Without the Other
Clancy Martin
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Description for Love and Lies: And Why You Can’t Have One Without the Other
Paperback. For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer: love and lies have always been the most intimate of bedfellows. And Clancy Martin - divorced twice, married three times - is no stranger to either. With help from Plato, Machiavelli, Raymond Carver and Pinocchio, here he explores the entanglements of love, truthfulness and deceit. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer: love and lies have always been the most intimate of bedfellows.
And Clancy Martin – divorced twice, married three times – is no stranger to either.
With help from Plato, Machiavelli, Raymond Carver and Pinocchio, here he explores the entanglements of love, truthfulness and deceit. First, unrequited, lasting or misguided – love always goes hand in hand with secrets, and it’s time we started being honest about our lying.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784700775
SKU
V9781784700775
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-23
About Clancy Martin
A former owner of a variety of jewellery operations in Texas, Clancy Martin is presently an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He has translated Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, has written several books for Oxford University Press, and has published many essays, reviews and short stories. He is the author of the acclaimed ... Read more
Reviews for Love and Lies: And Why You Can’t Have One Without the Other
This is a strange and hauntingly intelligent book. To read it is to see new and unsettling complexities in our most cherished relationships, as well as to understand a little better the subtle workings of our own deceitful minds
Oliver Thring
Sunday Times
A philosophical memoir with juicy details and an aching sense of loss and yearning—in ... Read more
Oliver Thring
Sunday Times
A philosophical memoir with juicy details and an aching sense of loss and yearning—in ... Read more