Friendship : an exposeÌ / Joseph Epstein.
Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.Description: xv, 270 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780618341498
- 0618341498
- 302.3/4 22
- HM1161 .E67 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-258) and index.
A number of mildly outrageous generalizations : a little taxonomy of friendship -- A charming little gift for false intimacies -- Best friends -- The quickest way to kill friendships -- Friends-who needs 'em? -- An extremely sketchy history of friendship -- Friendship, thy name is 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 & clans & communities -- Talking the talk -- Techno-friendships -- Friendship's new rival -- Broken friendships -- Friendlessness -- Is there an art of friendship?