{"product_id":"the-reddest-rose-by-liv-stromquist-9781683964599","title":"The Reddest Rose","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Strömquist's \u003cem\u003eThe Reddest Rose\u003c\/em\u003e is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of 20-something models?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer answer—in the form of this collection of well-researched, humorous comics essays—tracks how philosophers and artists, from the Ancient Greeks to Beyoncé, conceptualised romantic love. Strömquist's signature characters, drawn in a flat, blocky style, ask each other questions and offer sharp commentary as they guide readers throughout history and the change in societies' values, from showing love\/loving to getting love\/being loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e(Poet Hilda \"H.D.\" Doolittle—who was so love-stricken by a man taking off his glasses that she believed they viewed dolphins together in another dimension—lends the book its title.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLord Byron, Socrates, Byung-Chul Han, Ezra Pound, Slavoj Žižek, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ariadne, and many others have cameos. For the first time in English, in \u003cem\u003eThe Reddest Rose\u003c\/em\u003e, Strömquist wonders: in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487637848300,"sku":"9781683964599","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e4ad1fb2a9df6f5c6d0d27e960a08e92.jpg?v=1775771530","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-reddest-rose-by-liv-stromquist-9781683964599","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}