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Macmillan
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9780312423810 ISBN-10: 0312423810Synopsis
"We are each the love of someone's life." So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli,
a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other.
Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards, growing younger every year. And yet, his physical curse proves to be a blessing, allowing him to try to win the heart of the same woman three times as at each successive encounter she fails to recognize him, taking him for a stranger, so giving Max another chance at love.
Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, The Confessions of Max Tivoli is a beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, questioning the very nature of love, time, and what it means to be human.
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"Enchanting"โJohn Updike, The New Yorker
"Devastating, heartbreaking...an astonishment."โEsquire
"****"โPeople
"Quietly dazzling...keenly affecting."โThe New York Times Book Review
"This year's break-out novel."โEntertainment Weekly
"A devastating new writer"-Michael Cunningham
"A fable of surpassing gravity and beauty."โSan Francisco Chronicle
"One of the most talented writers around."โMichael Chabon
"Elegant and graceful."โMiami Herald
"Brilliantly conceived."โLos Angeles Times
"A breath-taking love story...a profound meditation on life."โSalon.com
"A writer of great daring and originality."โPeter Carey
"It leaves its readers ...both younger and wiser."โWashington Post
"What's most impressive about Greer's work is the emotional intensity...and the deep beauty of his prose"โThe Atlanta Journal Constitution
"This is the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud, write notes in the margins and shed tears onto its pages."โNeil LaBute
"Surprisingly and genuinely affecting."โLibrary Journal
"Strikingly original and beautifully told."โBookpage
"Weird and wonderful...[a] deft new modern master."โElle.com
"[It] strums the heartstrings again and again...positively captivating."โBooklist
"Mesmerizing and heartbreaking."โPublishers Weekly
"The delights are many....old-fashioned narrative fun in a literary hall of mirrors."
โKirkus Review
"A mythic, Proustian romance...a brilliant story."โThe Times (London)
Andrew Sean Greer is the author of the story collection How It Was for Me (Picador) and most recently a novel, The Path of Minor Planets (Picador). He lives in San Francisco.
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Dimensions
8.5 inches ร 0.6389751 inches ร 5.5 inches
0.55 pounds
Dewey Decimal
813/.54