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For Love Alone

by Christina Stead
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One woman’s obsession with love and fate leads her to unexpected truths about passion, sexuality, and power in 1930s London
Driven by a belief in love above all else, Teresa Hawkins leaves her life in Australia and moves to London in search of her destiny. After years of emotional distance within her family, and despite her naïveté of the vagaries of heartache, Teresa dedicates her life to the commandment “thou shalt love.” Affection-starved and painfully vulnerable, she immediately focuses her affections on Jonathan Crow, her egotistical and indifferent Latin tutor. But it’s only through another man, an entirely unexpected influence on her life, that Teresa will gain a full consciousness of her own sexuality and identity as a woman. For Love Alone is a powerful novel written in an original voice—a feat of literary narrative by one of the twentieth century’s finest writers.
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Publisher: Open Road Media

Kindle Book

  • Release date: October 23, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781453265215
  • Release date: October 23, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781453265215
  • File size: 1420 KB
  • Release date: October 23, 2012

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Fiction Literature

Languages

English

One woman’s obsession with love and fate leads her to unexpected truths about passion, sexuality, and power in 1930s London
Driven by a belief in love above all else, Teresa Hawkins leaves her life in Australia and moves to London in search of her destiny. After years of emotional distance within her family, and despite her naïveté of the vagaries of heartache, Teresa dedicates her life to the commandment “thou shalt love.” Affection-starved and painfully vulnerable, she immediately focuses her affections on Jonathan Crow, her egotistical and indifferent Latin tutor. But it’s only through another man, an entirely unexpected influence on her life, that Teresa will gain a full consciousness of her own sexuality and identity as a woman. For Love Alone is a powerful novel written in an original voice—a feat of literary narrative by one of the twentieth century’s finest writers.
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Fiction Literature