Communion
The Female Search for Love
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On Sale:
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12/12/2002
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Trade paperback
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Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with Communion: The Female Search for Love.
Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every female to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help.
Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.
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Critical Praise for
Communion
” A masterful job . . . Communion is a thinking women’s (and man’s) valentine--more nourishing than candy, more enduring than the floweriest language Hallmark has to offer--and a fitting conclusion to hooks’ groundbreaking work on love in American life.”
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Los Angeles Times
“Masterful. A thinking women’s (and man’s) valentine, a fitting conclusion to hooks’ groundbreaking work on love in American life.”
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Los Angeles Times
“A powerful guidebook to life, which contains insight into the essence of love, societal influences that preclude one’s finding it, and practical means for opening oneself to the love found in relationships.”
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Library Journal
“A powerful guidebook to life.”
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Library Journal
“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.”
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Maya Angelou
“[She] offers a deeply personal—and in this age of chicken-soupy psychobabble—unabashedly honest view of relationships.”
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Entertainment Weekly
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Salvation
Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love. Whether...
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All About Love
"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love . Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist...
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