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"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.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * TODAY SHOW PICK
"Enchanting"--John Updike, The New Yorker
"Devastating, heartbreaking...an astonishment."--Esquire
"****"--People
"Quietly dazzling...keenly affecting."--The New York Times Book Review
"This year's break-out novel."--Entertainment Weekly
"A devastating new writer"-Michael Cunningham
"A fable of surpassing gravity and beauty."--San Francisco Chronicle
"One of the most talented writers around."--Michael Chabon
"Elegant and graceful."--Miami Herald
"Brilliantly conceived."--Los Angeles Times
"A breath-taking love story...a profound meditation on life."--Salon.com
"A writer of great daring and originality."--Peter Carey
"It leaves its readers ...both younger and wiser."--Washington Post
"What's most impressive about Greer's work is the emotional intensity...and the deep beauty of his prose"--The 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."--Neil LaBute
"Surprisingly and genuinely affecting."--Library Journal
"Strikingly original and beautifully told."--Bookpage
"Weird and wonderful...[a] deft new modern master."--Elle.com
"[It] strums the heartstrings again and again...positively captivating."--Booklist
"Mesmerizing and heartbreaking."--Publishers Weekly
"The delights are many....old-fashioned narrative fun in a literary hall of mirrors."
--Kirkus Review
"A mythic, Proustian romance...a brilliant story."--The 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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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: new. First Edition. From the bestselling and Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Less comes Andrew Sean Greers extraordinarily haunting love story The Confessions of Max Tivoli told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwardsA Today Show Book Club PickWe are each the love of someones lifeSo begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other At his birth Maxs father declares him a nisse a creature of Danish myth as his baby son has the external physical appearance of an old dying creature Max grows older like any child but his physical age appears to go backwardon the outside a very old man but inside still a fearful childThe story is told in three acts First young Max falls in love with a neighborhood girl Alice who ages as normally as any of us Max of course does not as a young man he has an older mans body But his curse is also his blessing as he gets older his body grows younger so each successive time he finds his Alice she does not recognize him She takes him for a stranger and Max is given another chance at loveSet against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century Maxs life and confessions question the very nature of time of appearance and reality and of love itself A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination Andrew Sean Greers The Confessions of Max Tivoli reveals the world through the eyes of a monster a being who confounds the very certainties by which we live and in doing so embodies in extremis what it means to be human. Codice articolo DADAX0312423810
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