Keen brings his characteristic combination of philosophy, autobiography, and psychological depth to the central challenge of human life — learning to love and to receive love — exploring the various forms of love from eros and friendship to compassion and the love of the sacred. The book is especially valuable for men who have pursued achievement, independence, and control at the expense of genuine intimacy. Keen examines how the wounds of early attachment, masculine conditioning, and fear of vulnerability obstruct the capacity for love, and how that capacity can be recovered. It is one of the few books on love written from a genuinely masculine perspective without sentimentality or abstraction.