Set in Sydney and London in the 1930s, 'For Love Alone' is the story of Teresa Hawkins, an intelligent,
ardent young woman, and her search for the ideal passion of love. She attempts to engage the feelings of the unworthy Jonathan Crow, an intellectual young man and advocate of free love, and follows him to London after four years of severe self sacrifice. In London the mediocrity, corruption and egoistic shallowness of Crow gradually becomes obvious. With the help of James Quick, however, a devoted older man who takes Teresa to live with him, she is able to abandon her idealised vision. After a brief interlude with Quick's friend, Harry Girton, Teresa advances to a new, more detached appreciation of passion, and renews her commitment to Quick in full awareness of the compromises that love imposes.
'A remarkable book. I feel elated to think it is there.' - Patrick White.
Title: For love alone
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Christina Stead
ISBN 13: 9780522853704
ISBN 10: 0522853706
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Imprint: The Miegunyah Press
Publication Date: 1/12/2011
Place of Publication:
Carlton,
Australia
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
Dewey Classification:
A823.00
(DC23)
;
A823.00
(DC22)
NBS Classification: Unclassifiable: no BIC
Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 128mm
Thickness: 42mm
Weight: 554g