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Unrequited: The Thinking Woman's Guide to Romantic Obsession

✍ Scribed by Phillips, Lisa A

Book ID
109213053
Publisher
HarperCollins
Tongue
English
Weight
251 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780062114013

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Blending memoir, literary exposition, and revealing case studies, a powerful, surprising, and empathetic cultural and psychological exploration of one-sided romantic obsession. The summer Lisa A. Phillips turned thirty, she fell in love with someone who didn't return her feelings. She soon became obsessed. She followed him around, called him compulsively, and talked about him endlessly. One desperate morning, after she snuck into his apartment building, he picked up a baseball bat to protect himself and began to dial 911. Her unrequited love had changed her from a sane, conscientious college teacher and radio reporter into someone she barely recognized—someone who was taking her yearning much too far. In Unrequited, Phillips explores the tremendous force of obsessive love in women's lives. She argues that it needs to be understood, respected, and channeled for personal growth—yet it also has the potential to go terribly awry. Interweaving her own story...

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