
Friendship
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Is it possible to have too many friends? Is your spouse supposed to be your best friend? How far should you go to help a friend in need? And how do you end a friendship that has run its course?
In a "smart, delightfully literate, and sophisticated" anatomy of friendship in all its contemporary guises, Joseph Epstein uncovers the rich and surprising truths about our favored companions ( Los Angeles Times). Friendship illuminates those complex, wonderful relationships without which we'd all be lost.
"Reading [Epstein] is like spending an evening being flatteringly entertained by the most interesting guy at the party." - The Seattle Times
"A brilliant and outspoken commentator... Epstein's graceful style and irrepressible wit provide unalloyed pleasure." - Chicago Tribune
"Brisk and delightful." - The Wall Street Journal
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- A Little Taxonomy of Friends
- A Charming Gift for False Intimacy
- Best Friends
- The Quickest Way to Kill Friendships
- Friends-Who Needs 'Em?
- An Extremely Sketchy History of Friendship
- Reciprocity, or Is It Obligation?
- A Friendship Diary: Adulation, Stimulation, Obligation
- Pity Is at the Bottom of Women
- Boys Will Be Boys
- Petty Details vs. Eternal Verities
- Disparate Friends
- Cliques and Clans and Communities
- Talking the Talk
- Techno-Friendships
- Friendship's New Rival
- Broken Friendships
- Friendlessness
- Is There an Art of Friendship?
- A Bibliographical Note
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
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