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Friendship : an exposé /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Epstein, Joseph, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Subjects:
Epstein, Joseph, > 1937- > Friends and associates.
Friendship.
Friendship in literature.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 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?