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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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'Here is a writer of great daring and originality, who is not afraid of emotion. Max Tivoli may even make you cry.' - Peter Carey
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer is a haunting tale of love lost, then found, in the least expected ways, set in San Francisco during the turbulent years at the turn of the twentieth century.
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"This is the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud, write notes in the margins and shed tears onto its pages. The Confessions of Max Tivoli is a thing of beauty." Neil LaBute
Max Tivoli is a narrator like no other, and this is a heartbreaking love story. At his birth, Max has the external physical appearance of an old, dying creature. Max grows older like any child, but his physical age appears to go backwards—on the outside a very old man, but inside still a fearful child.
When Max is 17, he falls in love with a neighbour girl, Alice, who ages normally. As he gets older, his body grows younger, so each successive time he finds his Alice, she does not recognise him, taking him for a stranger. Max is given another chance at love.
Set against the backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, it's a tale of love lost then found which achieves an emotional resonance that is unforgettable.
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ISBN: 9780571220229
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 April 2005
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 230g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Andrew Sean Greer is the author of the novel The Path of Minor Planets and How It Was For Me. He lives in San Francisco, California.
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