- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (27 Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099545810
- ISBN-13: 978-0099545811
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 270,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On discovering that she had cancer and only months to live, philosopher and academic Gillian Rose wrote this memoir as an exploration of who she was. The book deals with faith, conflict, love and death as it covers the different stages of her life.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I gave up my PhD because this woman was so clever- especially in Hegel contra Sociology. This memoir is very moving, but very challenging and rich. I read it twice a year and still find new insights, and it challenges our humanity as much as intellect.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
It's not often that, having finished a book, in a state of awed excitement you turn back to the beginning and start all over again. I have a sense that this extraordinary and uncategorisable little masterpiece is undergoing a phase of neglect. Fourteen years on from its author's death, it's time it was revisited and re-evaluated. It's one of the masterworks of miscellaneous prose-writing from the late twentieth century, genre-transcending, exquisitely written, combative, inexhaustible, candid, sensuous and infinitely wise. Written by a passionate feminist and philosopher and circling round those twin polarities of love and death, its 144 all-too-brief pages have as much gravity and interest as any autobiography I've ever read. The author's character is captivating, her humanity wickedly observant, funny, embracing. It sends you scuttling for the dictionary here and there, and there are sentences the meaning of which you have to ponder for as long as it takes; but what of that when the end-result is a deepening of our sense of the human condition, a gift of the possibilities of connection? Compare this book with another acclaimed addition to the modern death-memoir genre - Joan Didion's "Year of Magical Thinking" - and the transcendent. mischievous quality of Gillian Rose's mind is made plain. The one, for all the touching nature of its material, is showy, exhibitionist, name-dropping, shallow, and irritating too in its stylistic tics. The other is profoundly cultured, meditative, brave - it's as good a book as I've read in years, and I cannot recommend it too highly. Five stars, considering some of the volumes that gain this plaudit, is not enough. Just say that it's a modern classic, read it again and again, and mourn the fact that there's no more to come from its author's magical quality of mind.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
In Love's Work, Rose not only recounts events from her life through which her inner self is revealed, but takes the reader on a philosophical journey about life itself. The text is multi-layered, and can be read both as an autobiography and a philosophical work. It is this depth that has led me to read and re-read Love's Work, each time finding new points of power and meaning.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Short on wisdom
From the blurb I expected above all striking philosophical insights, but I was disappointed. There are very funny things, for example Rose's account of studying at Oxford, but... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Pipistrel
Writes well for a philosopher
This lady writes very well for a philosopher. Anyone who has struggled through the turgid prose of A.J. Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2000 by James Mulligan
An excellent biografical and deeply philosophical book
Rose is honest, shocking, amusing, bitter, clever. I've never read such a book with such intensity time and time again, as fragments of the life of an undoubtedly powerful and... Read more
Published on 27 May 1999
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