Still in Love

A Novel

By: Michael Downing

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's Summary

This hilarious, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately heartening novel is the companion to the critically acclaimed, national bestseller Perfect Agreement 

"Beautifully and economically written, and very funny." (Linda Wertheimer, NPR)

This is your chance to enroll in English 10 at highly rated Hellman College - if you can find a place to sit in the fantastically overcrowded classroom. 

Mark Sternum, whom listeners first met in Downing’s beloved novel Perfect Agreement, is a veteran teacher. Twenty years older, separated for six months from his longtime lover, and desperate to duck the overtures of double-dealing deans above him and disgruntled adjunct faculty below him, Mark has one ambition every day he is on campus - to close the classroom door and leave the world behind. His escape, however, is complicated by his contentious, complicated wrestling match of a relationship with the Professor, the tenured faculty member with whom Mark has co-taught this creative-writing workshop for ten years. 

The spectacle of their rigorous, academic relationship is a chance for students - all of us - to learn what an amazing arena the classroom can be. Replete with engaging writing exercises, harsh criticism, and contrarian advice, Still in Love is the story of one semester in a college classroom. And it is an urgent reminder that we desperately need classrooms, that those singular, sealed-off-from-the-world sanctuaries are where we learn to love our lives.

©2019 Michael Downing (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Brilliant beyond articulation - Mind captured with every word

The writer’s (Michael :)) work here is masterful and beautiful capturing my attention with every sentence. The story has left me with an effervescent level of curiosity to know what the lives of every character is like now. His intelligent sharp humor will have you laughing well into the next chapter and gasping in awe of how he said what he said with so few words. You’ll want to have this one on speed dial for a repeat listen, I’ll certainly be coming back.

Title dosent match story

Okay this is a brilliant writer but their was no love story here. If is about a man who’s partner left him and him continuing on with life going to work as a professor. The college students he mentors varies in strength and weakness. To make a love story you need to characters who actually fall in love. Not just the love of your own thoughts. I was hoping it would skip several years for a conclusion and it did not. The semester ended and the story was over.