Alain de Botton

In a novel that explores the realities of "being in love," two young people meet on a plane to Paris and embark on a love affair based on what they perceive as destiny. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

A Novel

On Love

Mounir Bashour

I still feel like Alain is a long lost soul mate who took a slightly different path. We had similar upbringings and our first passionate loves were indeed very similar. This is the book I would/should have written about my first true requited love but Alain wrote it for me and continues to write the books that I wish I could write as eloquently. This, however, remains my favourite.

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Elena Kuran

Alain De Botton

In this dazzlingly original first novel, Alain de Botton tells of a young man smitten by a woman on a Paris-London flight. On Love plots the course of their affair from the initial delirium of infatuation to the depths of suicidal despair, as the beloved, inexplicably, begins to drift away. "A tour de force pleasure of a first novel".Kirkus Reviews.

Lindsy Rice

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Aidan

The New York Times-bestselling author’s modern classic that “takes a conventional love story and textures it with philosophical ruminations” (Kirkus Reviews). A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins a love story—from first kiss to first argument, elation to heartbreak, and everything in between. Each stage of the relationship is illuminated with starling clarity, as novelist and philosopher Alain de Botton explores young love and its emotions, often felt but rarely understood. With a brilliant new introduction by Sheila Heti, the New York Times-bestselling author of How Should a Person Be?, On Love is a contemporary classic from an author “who seems to have been born to write” (The Boston Globe). “Smart and ironic...The book’s success has much to do with its beautifully modeled sentences, its wry humor, and its unwavering deadpan respect for the reader's intelligence.” —Francine Prose, New Republic “Witty, funny, sophisticated...full of wise and illuminating insights.” —P.J. Kavanagh, Spectator

On Love A Novel

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