{"product_id":"on-marriage","title":"On Marriage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORKER AND KIRKUS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Devorah Baum is a visionary writer. Her intellectual depth, her emotional precision and her searing insight can only be gathered under an old fashioned word: wisdom' Zadie Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA shining exploration of why we marry from writer and academic Devorah Baum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor better or worse, for richer for poorer, till death us do part – we’ve always done it and we’re still doing it. Of all our cultural institutions, marriage is the most ancient, but also the most puzzling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this compelling and delightful book, Devorah Baum examines the many meanings we have given to marriage, interweaving the personal with insights from a host of writers, artists and thinkers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Freud to Ferrante, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOne Thousand and One Nights\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFleabag\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she looks at marriage in all of its forms – from act of love to leap of faith, and asks: what are we really doing when we say ‘I do’?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth celebration and critique, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOn Marriage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a guide like no other to the landscape of marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A hugely thought-provoking, witty, warm tour around every significant writer and thinker on love to have emerged since Adam and Eve' Alain de Botton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e336pgs \/ \u003cspan\u003e12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cat Socrates Online","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46527490621576,"sku":"jhv1789498522090","price":13.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/3236\/7240\/files\/on-marriage_1.jpg?v=1789498527","url":"https:\/\/glamhubfashion.shop\/products\/on-marriage","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}