The confessions of Max Tivoli / Andrew Sean Greer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greer, Andrew Sean.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations).

Immortalism--Fiction.

Immortalism.

Aging--Fiction.

Aging.

Men--Fiction.

Unrequited love--Fiction.

Love--Fiction.

Romantic love--Fiction.

Secrets--Fiction.

Magic--Fiction.

Mythology, Danish.

California--Fiction.

San Francicso, California--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

267 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Picador edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

"Today's book club"--Cover.

ISBN:

0312423810

9780312423810

OCLC:

57569915