| Philip s Gir/is the story of an affair be-tween a younger woman and an olderman. It investigates love and power,passion and rationality, through sev-eral dimensions of heterosexual, filial,lesbian, and parental love. It explodesa number of myths about what hasbeen termed "the mentor condition,"by sbifting the power in the affairfrom the teacher to the student, fromthe icon to the worshipper. The bookturns on some of the larger issues thattake it beyond romance--the attrac-tive and continual battle between rea-son and passion. The story is told in a straightfor-ward prose that is at once accessibleand revealing in its description of thecharacters and events. |
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