- Author/Creator:
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Epstein, Joseph, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
- Format:
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- Bibliography:
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-258) and index.
- Contents:
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- Foreword
- 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?
- Subjects:
- ISBN:
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0618872159
9780618872152 0618341498 9780618341498
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