ON LOVE

Chloe and Alain meet in a plane flying from Paris to London and fall in love. Their romance lasts only about a year, and after they have parted the narrator/author uses scenes from their time together as illustrations of his philosophical anatomy of romantic love. Chapters are formed of numbered paragraphs so that the book resembles a classical philosophical disquisition, and it's on this leve l that it reads best. First novelist de Botton writes well--dozens of sentences glisten with aphoristic insight--but neither Chloe n or Alain ...[Read more]