Product Description

To discuss monogamy is to discuss most of the things that matter to us. In this accessible work, the author explores why relationships go wrong, how monogamy comes with infidelity built in, and why there is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #268167 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

What's there is good.
I bought this having recently read and enjoyed Going Sane. However, I was disappointed that there were so many pages with only one paragraph on the page. It seems like a waste that a writer who has so many interesting things to say should produce a book with so much empty space! Although I did enjoy many of the thoughts in the book, I never quite got over the disappointment of realising I had nearly finished when I felt like it was just getting started.

Aphorisms for a new age
In a series of aphorisms and vignettes, Phillips explores with panache the notion that the ideal of monogamy is separate from fidelity: 'two's company but three's a couple'. Is it cruel, he asks, to demand everything from just one person? We are all capable of loving more than one person at a time. An excellent and thought provoking read.

A gem of a book
I bought this 5 years ago and havee only come back to this site as I lent my copty to someone who has not given it back. The essence of the book is to explore the tension that we find ourselves in between the constraints and stability of monogomy and the excitement and uncertainty of a single life. There are many accutely observed insights into this modern of dilemmas