All for Love (Nation Books) Mass Market Paperback – September 18, 2002
by Ved Mehta (Author)
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Ved Mehta joined the staff of The New Yorker in the 1960s, blind since the age of four and already on his way to a career as a writer. In a series of four relationships he demanded that his lovers, like him, pretend he could see. With lyrical and stirring accuracy, Mehta revisits these love affairs today, tracing the links between his denial of his disability and the cruel transformations that each of his lovers underwent. “Poignant and occasionally hilarious.”—The New York Times Book Review “This elegant volume remains a striking piece of insight into the nature of love.”—Publishers Weekly “[An] excoriatingly truthful and heartbreaking account of the pursuit and loss of love....”—The Times of London “A mesmerizing account ... the most arresting passages are Mehta’s mind-expanding descriptions of how he perceives the world.”—Booklist
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Wanda S Murtha
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Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2014
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I like Mehta's style of writing. This was the third book of his I read. His attention to detail and veracity is awesome. It is a heavy book in subject matter. I had to lay it down often to deal with all of the "stuff" he was a party of in each relationship. I was glad that he concluded the book with therapy because I felt like I needed therapy after being privy to all of his intimacy. I'm surprised he survived this lifestyle and that the permissiveness seemed popular in the '60's.
I feel an author should always have an underlying purpose for writing. Ved's is, of course, to fill in blanks of his autobiography. I'm sorry, but I believe he should have an ethical obligation to his audience, as well. That is missing in this book.
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mary richie smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Love Is All
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2001
Ved Mehta's remarkable "All For Love" might be called a memoir, a looking back upon a fumbling, yearning period in a complicated man's younger life. But the book inhabits both the past and the present, the author understanding at one and the same moment what he was and what he is. He looks at four long-ago love affairs, and through the inclusion of the women's love letters to him he lets us see who they were, to themselves as well as to him, at that time. He writes as a man from India assuming the role of a major New Yorker writer. Though he cannot see, he understands how everything looks. Emotionally, he seems to know what love did to him, and what he did to love. He was much helped, as he explains, by psychoanalysis; but his insights come through that painful and courageous reaching into the dark which is the only way to the light. This is a beautiful and courageous book by a writer who lives, within and without, in many dimensions. I was very moved by it and doubt there will ever be another book quite to match it.
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Lynn
5.0 out of 5 stars Loving "All for Love"
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2002
I loved this book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to start it again. My college-age son is enjoying it too. It is a wonderful way for the two of us to connect. With elegance and humor, Mr. Mehta captures those all-too-familiar feelings of being uncontrollably drawn to someone long after good sense would tell you to move on. His courage and honesty in discussing his psychoanalysis make his childhood games of leaping from rooftop to rooftop, despite his blindness, seem tame in comparison. Ultimately, "All for Love" allows the reader to forgive himself or herself for lapses of judgment they may have made in their own romantic encounters. Read it!
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