Eleven Ways To Love: Essays
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People have been telling their love stories for thousands of years. It is the greatest common human experience. And yet, love stories coach us to believe that love is selective, somehow, that it can be boxed in and easily defined. This is a collection of eleven remarkable essays that widen the frame of reference: transgender romance; body image issues; race relations; disability; polyamory; class differences; queer love; long distance; caste; loneliness; the single life; the bad boy syndrome . . . and so much more. Pieced together with a dash of poetry and a whole lot of love, featuring a multiplicity of voices and a cast of unlikely heroes and heroines, this is a book of essays that show us, with empathy, humour and wisdom, that there is no such thing as the love that dare not speak its name. Review: Great seller - Excellent product and a great seller Review: Excellent! - I keep buying books from desertcart But never been this satisfied The packaging was excellent By the seller ‘Everydaybookcentre’ Got it for 214/-
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| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 69 Reviews |
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Great seller
Excellent product and a great seller
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Excellent!
I keep buying books from amazon But never been this satisfied The packaging was excellent By the seller ‘Everydaybookcentre’ Got it for 214/-
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Loved Shrayana Bhattacharya's Aristoprats essay
A remarkable collection, such honesty. Loved Shrayana Bhattacharya's Aristoprats essay !
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Worth a read
Progressive
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Bad quality
Very bad quality. The papers were bent and the hardcover paper were torn and bent from the sides.
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On “The Aristoprats” by Shrayana Bhattacharya
Storytelling on love, especially of the new-age variety, can quickly get mawkish. However, what Shrayana brilliantly achieves in The Aristoprats is a complex interplay of romance and assertion-of-individuality, woven into a narrative that never gets overbearing. Her ability to intimately reflect on a slice of her own personal life with the discerning eye of an academic is startling – she reveals, analyzes, and articulates her emotions, even intersperses them with humor, with a candor and elegance that's hard to match in autobiographical writings. The Aristoprats is an essay that indeed is a love story, but also a social commentary rooted in a robust ethnographic understanding of Delhi's uber-elite. Shrayana’s writing is complex ("love affairs were merely heteronormative icing on a dreary homosocial cake"), yet captivating, and in that seeming incongruence lies its brilliance. The Aristoprats ends with her ‘liberation’, but you would not celebrate the story, you would celebrate the thought-provoking prose of an extraordinary mind.
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About the Book Condition
The book is an old one. Jacket of the book torn, corners are bended. In a bad condition
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disappointed
got an old book, jacket of book is torn.
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Absolutely beautiful
I haven’t read a book so gripping and unexpected a long while. Love, poetically portrayed in all its human forms and all its messy glory.
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