The idea of love
by Louise Dean
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"When foreign couples with families converge on Provence for a better life, it seems as if sunshine, drinking and partying will create an idyllic little community of like-minded sorts. But compelled to venture far from this Eden, to Africa, two of the couples' lives are changed irrevocably when each begins to doubt themselves, who they are and why they're there." "For Richard, life unravels alarmingly quickly when he loses his marriage, his home, his job in pharmaceutical sales and finally maybe even his mind; for his wife Valerie and for their friends Jeff and Rachel, it's the pursuit of the idea of love that savages what they hold dear and only love itself that grants any enlightenment." "But for the children in the story, the awkward unsettling Maxence and angelic little Maud, The Idea of Love is much simpler ..."--BOOK JACKET.
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Adultery, Americans, British, Employees, Fiction, Immigrants, Married people, Mental Depression, Middle-aged men, Parent and child, Pharmaceutical industry, Psychology, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, psychological, Married people, fiction, Africa, fiction, Parent and child, fiction, France, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fictionPlaces
Africa, France, Provence, Provence (France)Showing 10 featured editions. View all 10 editions?
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Idea of Love
2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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When foreign families converge on Provence for a better life, it seems as if sunshine, drinking and partying will create an idyllic little community of like-minded sorts. But compelled to venture far from this Eden to Africa, two of the couples lives are changed irrevocably when each begins to doubt themselves, who they are and why they're there. For Richard, life unravels alarmingly quickly when he loses his marriage, his home, and his job in pharmaceutical sales and finally maybe even his mind; for his wife Valerie and for their friends Jeff and Rachel it's the pursuit of the idea of love that salvages what they hold dear and only love itself that grants any enlightenment. But for the children in the story, the awkward unsettling Maxence and angelic little Maud, The Idea of Love is much simpler.
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