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Communion
The Female Search for Love
Series: Love Song to the Nation
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In the final book of her love trilogy that began with "all about love" and "salvation, " bell hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, by the culture of self-help, and by popular media forces such as television and movies.
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“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya Angelou
Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller 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 woman 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 the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help, and reveals how women of all ages can bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives.
Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman — mother, daughter, friend, and lover — needs to have.
Series: Love Song to the Nation
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All About Love, a New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, presents an in-depth exploration of the very concept of love. In this critically acclaimed first volume of bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist pioneers a journey toward understanding and redefining love in modern society. This book is a heartfelt narrative...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Communion
“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya Angelou Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid August -
All About Love: The Deluxe Collector's Edition
Now available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth over board one-piece case with gifty trim, case stamping with red foil, red-coloured endpapers, red sprayed edges, and sewn-in red ribbon bookmark! A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song...Hardback$4500Elsewhere:$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Salvation
“A manual for fixing our culture... In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process.”—Black Issues Book Review New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural critic bell hooks continues her exploration of the meaning of love in contemporary American...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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Communion by bell hooks is hailed as a masterful and thoughtful exploration of love, regarded as both a profound and practical guide to life. It serves as a compelling conclusion to hooks' influential discussions on love within American culture.
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ISBN: 9780060938291
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 June 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Bell Hooks is a cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of our nation's leading public intellectual by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader's "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life," she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks is the author of more than 17 books, including All About Love: New Visions; RememberedRapture: The Writer at Work; Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life; Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood; Killing Rage: Ending Racism; Art on My Mind: Visual Politics; and Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. She lives in New York City.
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