{"product_id":"single-michael-cobb-9780814772553","title":"Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radical defense of a solitary life\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat single person hasn't suffered? Everyone, it seems, must be (or must want to be) in a couple. To exist outside of the couple is to assume an antisocial position that is ruthlessly discouraged because being in a couple is the way most people bind themselves to the social. Singles might just be the single most reviled sexual minorities today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingle: Arguments for the Uncoupled\u003c\/i\u003e offers a polemic account of this supremacy of the\u003cbr\u003ecouple form, and how that supremacy blocks our understanding of the single. Michael Cobb reads the figurative language surrounding singleness as it traverses an eclectic set of literary, cultural, philosophical, psychoanalytical, and popular culture objects from Plato, Freud, Ralph Ellison, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Barack Obama, Emily Dickinson, Morrissey, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Hannah Arendt to the Bible, \u003ci\u003e Sex and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBridget Jones' Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, Beyoncé's \"Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),\" and HBO's \u003ci\u003eBig Love\u003c\/i\u003e. Within these flights of fancy, poetry, fiction, strange moments in film and video, paintings made in the desert, bits of song, and memoirs of hiking in national parks, Cobb offers an inspired, eloquent\u003cbr\u003erumination on the single, which is guaranteed to spark conversation and consideration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Cobb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814772552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814772553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 5.04w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/30\/2012 pg. 124","brand":"Michael Cobb","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926451781887,"sku":"9780814772553","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_80eaf5cf-8c07-4b44-8490-d4ee59069ca1.jpg?v=1681083152","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/single-michael-cobb-9780814772553","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}