Reunion / Alan Lightman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lightman, Alan P., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--Fiction.

College teachers.

Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.

Loss (Psychology).

Class reunions--Fiction.

Class reunions.

First loves--Fiction.

First loves.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Love stories.

Physical Description:

231 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2003]

Summary:

At fifty-two, Charles is a professor at a minor ''leafy little college, '' a once-promising poet, divorced, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Without knowing why, he decides to attend his thirtieth college reunion. And there, he magically witnesses a replay of his last year in college. Drawn back into his memories like a moth to a flame, Charles watches his tender and romantic twenty-two-year-old self embark on an all-consuming love affair with a beautiful dancer. As the two young people struggle to find themselves amidst the social and political chaos of the late 1960s, the older Charles often recalls contradictory versions of his past, ultimately confronting for the second time a series of devastating events that would forever change his life. Written with crystalline prose, at once precise and mysterious, Reunion explores the pain of self-examination, the clay-like nature of memory, and the impossible hopefulness of youth.

ISBN:

037542167X

OCLC:

50503211