'Is even the most clenched heart capable of it?' Lauren Slater asks in this original and eloquent book about love. Slater, career-orientated and wilfully autonomous, charts her own personal journey and decision-making process in deciding to have a child. She starts with a list of the pros and cons. The cons list is long and includes 'less time for friends', 'less time for work', 'less money' and 'Prozac (I'm on it)'. The pros had only one entry: 'Learn a new kind of love.' But what will that love look like? Slater deals ...
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'Is even the most clenched heart capable of it?' Lauren Slater asks in this original and eloquent book about love. Slater, career-orientated and wilfully autonomous, charts her own personal journey and decision-making process in deciding to have a child. She starts with a list of the pros and cons. The cons list is long and includes 'less time for friends', 'less time for work', 'less money' and 'Prozac (I'm on it)'. The pros had only one entry: 'Learn a new kind of love.' But what will that love look like? Slater deals with many issues that are universal yet controversial: how to reconcile the needs of the self with the demands of others, how to go from being a couple to being a threesome, and how to adjust to losing control of one's carefully developed life, a life mapped out and run according to a plan. Slater's own complex biological and psychological history lies at the core of this story. One of the first people to take Prozac, she chronicles the conflicting advice regarding its use during pregnancy and her eventual decision to stop taking it for the first trimester. "Love Works Like This" is more than the story of one woman's pregnancy. It is a richly written book about falling in love, about learning to be selfless, and about the courage required to change one kind of happy life into another very different one.
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Add this copy of Love Works Like This: Travels Through a Pregnant Year to cart. $14.50, very good condition, Sold by Reuseabook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester, GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 300grams, ISBN: 9780747562177.
Add this copy of Love Works Like This: Travels Through a Pregnant Year to cart. $41.92, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Bloomsbury Paperbacks.
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