{"product_id":"so-this-is-love-gilbert-reid-9781990255113","title":"So This is Love: Lollipop and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdroitly capturing love and all its nuances, Gilbert Reid's provocative collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eSo This is Love\u003c\/i\u003e pulsates with underlying currents of violence, sex, passion, and the politics of desire. Tracing the globe, individuals find themselves caught in the entanglements of memory, forgetting, and the imminent future. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning on a startlingly poignant note, readers find themselves on \"Pavilion 24,\" where amid the ruins of war-torn Bosnia and religious conflict, a crippled Muslim soldier harbors an urge to kill a blind yet beautiful Serbian woman and yet manages to find solace in her. With distilled emotional intensity, Reid incites one to believe in the unexpected nature of love. \u003cbr\u003eIn a perverse almost comic telling of the complications that occur when love and sex collide, \"Irony is ...,\" depicts an intellectual liaison gone askew when a man becomes enamored of a sophisticated critic, whose enticing literary analysis leaves him susceptible to further allurements - i.e. he becomes a performer in a twisted show involving him, her, and Darwinian-esque dirty talk for her husband. \u003cbr\u003eA childhood fixation, long forgotten, colors the memory of a man as he returns home in \"The Road Out of Town\" and finds he has left part of himself behind. Haunting images of his unrequited love, an innocent beauty that was marked by an abusive history, walking out of town plague him while he remembers her and is left wondering, \"Why?\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese are but three affecting stories in a brilliantly diverse collection full of charming witticisms and dark curiosities, the tangle of fascination, perversity, ambivalence, and power at the heart of intimacy. From France to Italy to Bosnia to rural Canada, these nine stories question and alter the way readers may see love. \u003ci\u003eSo This is Love\u003c\/i\u003e is at times hauntingly morose, at times whimsically beautiful, but always honest. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gilbert Reid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1990255116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781990255113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Twin Rivers Productions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d","brand":"Gilbert Reid","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800759415039,"sku":"9781990255113","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/so-this-is-love-gilbert-reid-9781990255113","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}