Lovers: Great Romances of Our Time: Great Romances of Our Time Through the Eyes of Legendary Writers - Tapa dura

This collection of 50 couples whom Cupid's arrow kissed is butressed by the art of black and white photography and often first person recollection. (NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST)

This is a work which charts that often rocky road of romance- hetrosexual or otherwise- which is of fascination to us all. (BELFAST TELEGRAPH)

For sheer swoon value it doesn't get much better than this. (YORKSHIRE POST)

Each of the fifty profiles is an intimate pairing: Lauren Bacall on her relationship with Humphrey Bogart; A. Alvarez on the beautiful, sad days of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath; Katharine Hepburn on her stormy life with Spencer Tracy. Lovers also includes contributions from George Burns, Dylan Thomas, Jimmy Carter, and John Gregory Dunne. Every written piece is accompanied by a lush full-bleed portrait of the couple, by such noted photographers as Cecil Beaton, Bruce Weber, Bert Stern, and Annie Leibovitz. Lovers is a book about the fire of true love -- the undeniable longing that makes two people the desire of each other's life. Sometimes it comes in fiery flashes like Burton and Taylor; sometimes in the hear of a season like Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo; sometimes in a deep, lasting bond of Newman and Woodward; and sometimes in a long, sad trajectory like Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Yet these loves last forever. As Frank Sinatra said of Ava Gardner: She was my life.