{"product_id":"learning-about-love-9781683150473","title":"Learning About Love","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eDuring the 1960s Gorda decides to study in Switzerland. She finds her great love - and her utter despair - in a relationship with handsome and intelligent university student Remo. With humor and self-deprecation the author describes the fears and hopes of a young woman on the way to find herself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Geertje Suhr's Work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA wonderfully modern novel that offers a unique look at the uncertainties of young love - devastating and funny at the same time. We follow Gorda's attempts to find her place in the world where her main enemy is a foreboding sense of loneliness. She begins her studies at a university but soon changes her major and university (just to change later again). A chance encounter introduces her to Remo, an ambitious Swiss student and her great yet probematic love. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe novel is multi-layered: fairy-tale motives surface in the secular world of the 1960s; Gorda's observations are razor-sharp, detail-driven, and highly ironic while they are still the observations of an often naive young woman; the narrative oscillates between first-person and third-person points-of-view. Held together through her exploring the ups and downs of love, the novel leaves the reader with a sense of Gorda having become her own person. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise E. Stoehr, Professor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguages, Cultures, and Communication\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephen F. Austin State University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Culicidae Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781683150473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Geertje Suhr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801153302709,"sku":"9781683150473","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/learning-about-love-9781683150473","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}