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Love Me Tender
Constance Debré
Flammarion presents Love Me Tender as a continuation of Play Boy. After identity, the focus moves towards the other person and towards love, including maternal love and other forms of attachment.
Why it belongs here
The publisher’s presentation places a relationship between a mother and a son alongside the possibility that loves can change or end. That makes this a different entry into the selection from an essay that tries to define how to love.
Choose it for
A literary work that raises questions about attachment. It is not a relationship manual. Pair it with bell hooks if you want to compare a literary approach with an explicitly theoretical one.
Which edition?
The linked French edition was published by Flammarion on 8 January 2020 and has 192 pages. This English presentation describes that edition; check a bookseller or publisher for the language and format of the copy you want.
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