Ved Mehta became blind as a boy in India, two months short of his fourth birthday, but for the next thirty years lived in the grip of a fantasy that he could see. After an education which included Oxford and Harvard, he travelled and wrote for the New Yorker magazine.
Aged twenty, he published his first book. Soon he had established himself as a successful author and young man about Manhattan. Blindness to him was no longer a problem. What he lacked, or so he thought, was love, sex and marriage. And so began a series of love affairs, or love disasters.
'All For Love' recounts his relationships with four women and his search for self-understanding. The book is the ninth in Mehta's celebrated autobiographical series, 'Continents Of Exile', but never before has he written with such disconcerting frankness about the most intimate pleasure and pain.
Few other writers make such compelling and vivid witnesses to their personal history; few other men are so honest about their misunderstandings and failures in the business of love.
