{"product_id":"late-life-love-book-susan-gubar-9781432862190","title":"Late-Life Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband. As she contemplates their sustaining relationship, she begins to consider how older lovers differ from their youthful counterparts--and from ageist stereotypes. While her husband confronts age-related disabilities that effectively ground them, Susan dawdles over the logistics of moving from their cherished country house to a more manageable place in town and starts seeking out literature on the changing seasons of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the complications of devoted caregiving, her own ongoing cancer treatments, apartment hunting, the dismantling of a household, and perplexity over the breakdown of a treasured friendship, Susan finds consolation in books and movies. Works by writers from Ovid and Shakespeare to Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Marilynne Robinson lead Susan to appraise the obstacles many senior couples overcome: the unique sexuality of bodies beyond their prime as well as the trials of retirement, adult children, physical infirmities, the multiplications or subtractions of memory, and the aftereffects of trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the page and in life, Susan realizes that age cannot wither love. A memoir proving that the heart's passions have no expiration date, \u003ci\u003eLate-Life Love\u003c\/i\u003e rejoices in second chances.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50383959392529,"sku":"CIN1432862197G","price":46.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50579502858513,"sku":"CIN1432862197VG","price":7.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1432862197.jpg?v=1751272726","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/late-life-love-book-susan-gubar-9781432862190","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}