Falling in Love (English and Italian Edition)

By Francesco Alberoni

184pages. 17x10,8x1,4cm. Poche. 184pages. 17x10,8x1,4cm. Poche. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394530071
• ISBN13: 9780394530079
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Finally found it!!!

It took me three years to find this. Was it worth it? Sure.I was introduced to it in France three years ago, but my french language skills are too elementary to understand everything. So I had to find an English version. Very hard indeed.But what is maddening is that hundreds of...books are shoved in our face and books like this cannot even be found in libraries. This book simply tells it like it is; love is not that complicated. The difference between love and "in love" are in fact profound and (yes) easy to understand. The book is very easy to read like many of the... books on "modern love". But, Alberoni doesn't mix words: if you are in love, it is like this! If it is not like this, you are not in love. Also, he points out the all-too-common scenarios of falling in love: in love outside marriage and the 'ones in love, the other is content with the arrangement' and of course 'one believes in love, the other doesn't'. I guess these concepts remain taboo and hence cannot be discussed.Unlike the... self-help books, Alberoni doesn't tell you what to do or what you should do. I like this very much. The problem is that he points out the challenge of our engrained institutions and how these things work against love.

Brilliant analysis of the phenomenon of falling in love

This may be the best book I have ever read, and being a librarian, this is no small recommendation. Alberoni deciphers the causes and effects of love in a way that no one has before him. Anyone who has every been in love will say, "That is exactly how I felt, now I understand why I felt like that."ÿ

On-target and poetic

He describes accurately not only the process of falling in and phenomenon of being in love, but also, with painful accuracy, the agony of falling out of love... Some beautiful passages in this examination of the most beautiful of experiences; highly recommended!!

Very good

Do you have doubts about what is like to be in love? Read this book and those doubts will just fade away. Mr Alberoni describes it with an incredible accuracy!

a cruel truth...

This is a great book! So compelling...i'm in love right now, and this is exactly what i live..!