In Andrew Sean Greer's finely crafted novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Max narrates his life story from the vantage point of his late fifties, though his body is that of a year-old boy. He has known since a young age that he is destined to die at 70, and he wears a golden "" as a constant reminder of the year he will finally perish in an infant form/5(). · THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI. by Andrew Sean Greer ‧RELEASE DATE: Feb. 1, A man who ages backward in late–19th-century San Francisco recounts his inverted but ultimately rewarding life: a quirky second novel from the author of The Path of Minor Planets(). Born to wealthy San Franciscans in , Max Tivoli is pronounced a “Nisse,” or little . A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, Andrew Sean Greer's 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/5().
by Andrew Sean Greer. So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. 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. The Confessions of Max Tivoli Andrew Sean Greer Review by Alice Pelland. February Max Tivoli, the character at the center of Andrew Sean Greer's remarkable new novel, starts life with a bang. Max is conceived in Golden Gate Park in at the moment when Blossom Rock is dynamited in San Francisco Bay, creating the largest explosion in. THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI by Andrew Sean Greer Aug THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI is the story of the unusual life of Max Tivoli, who physically ages in reverse, as he mentally grows older. Max is born "old". He's the size of a normal baby, but his outward appearance is that of an old man.
The Confessions of Max Tivoli is enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov Like Proust, Greer presents life as essentially a solitude, an ever-renewed exile from the present, a shifting set of gorgeous mirages that nothing but descriptive genius can hold fast. Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of several works of fiction, including The. From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Andrew Sean Greer comes a story like no other. The Confessions of Max Tivoli is an ambitious and imaginative novel that leaves an indelible impression on readers. Max Tivoli is uniquely cursed. His mind ages normally, but he is born with the withered body of a year-old man, and his body ages in reverse.
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