The Course of Love

<b>From the author of the international bestsellers <i>Essays in Love, The Architecture of Happiness, and How Proust Can Change Your Life,</i> comes a novel that explores with trademark warmth and wit the complex landscape of a modern relationship.</b><br><br> <br>     Rabih and Kirsten meet, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning.<br>     Over the years this ordinary couple will miscommunicate and misunderstand each other, will worry about money, will have first a girl and then a boy. One of them will have an affair, one will think about it. Both will have doubts. This will be the real love story.<br>     Twenty-first century depictions of love and marriage are shaped by a set of Romantic myths and misconceptions. With philosophical insight and psychological acumen, Alain de Botton presents a realistic case study for marriage and examines what it might mean to love, to be loved -- and to stay in love.