The Confessions of Max Tivoli

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Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli (2004, RB Large Print)

351 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2004 by RB Large Print.

ISBN:
978-1-4025-7914-1
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OCLC Number:
54667567

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An extraordinarily haunting love story told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards

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. At his birth, Max's 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 backward--on the outside a very old man, but inside still a fearful child.

The 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 man's body. But his curse is also his blessing: as …

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Subjects

  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
  • Immortalism -- Fiction.
  • Aging -- Fiction.
  • Large type books.
  • San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.