books by Andrew Sean Greer

books by Andrew Sean Greer

books:

Andrew Sean Greer

The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

Andrew Sean Greer

Picador, 2005

Fantastic! You'll love this one if ...
"Everyone loves someone.", begins Max Tivoli who phsyically ages backward. And that's a good clue that this book isn't just going to be an interesting sci-fi premise hashed about - it's going to be a love story. Through Greer, the author, Max writes this memoir ...

The Story of a Marriage. Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer

Faber & Faber, 2008

The Story of a Marriage: A Novel

Andrew Sean Greer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

A multi-layered shimmer that bedazzles
Andrew Sean Greer is a riot of talent. He carves his words with such precision that one can have no choice but to be surrender to his writing. His works, including Story of a Marriage, always deal with the subtle underplay of the human mind, and ultimately reveal the ...

The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Andrew Sean Greer

RB Largeprint, 2004

Large print edition of "Confessions of Max Tivoli". Summary: Max Tivoli is uniquely cursed. His mind ages properly, but his body ages in reverse. Born with the withered -body of a 70-yr-old man, Max grows physically younger each year, while his intellect matures. Despite this crippling torment, Max manages three times to cross paths with Alice, ...

Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert
Andrew Sean Greer

Beck C. H., 2005

How It Was for Me: Stories

Andrew Sean Greer

Picador, 2001

Magic
Really fine fiction is like music in that its delivery is a delight, and its crescendo is both expected and startling. Really fine fiction is magical in its ability to recount a history and yet transcend the very notion of permanence and event. Andrew Sean Greer's ...

The Path of Minor Planets: A Novel

Andrew Sean Greer

Picador, 2002

Necessary read:
This is a gorgeous, gorgeous book. I picked it up soon after it came out because the cover caught my eye; was instantly curious after the description of a fiction book focused on astronomy and the summary on the back. I expected to like it, and after my first reading ...

The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Andrew Sean Greer

Recorded Books, LLC, 2004

From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Andrew Sean Greer comes a story like no other. Max Tivoli is uniquely cursed. His mind ages normally, but he is born with the withered body of a 70-year-old manand his body ages in reverse. Despite this torment, Max manages three times to cross paths with Alice, the woman who captures his heart. ...

The Confessin of Max Tivoli
Andrew Sean Greer, 2004

With a premise straight out of science fiction (or F. Scott Fitzgerald), Greer's second novel plumbs the agonies of misdirected love and the pleasures of nostalgia with gratifying richness. Max Tivoli has aged backwards: born in San Francisco in 1871 looking like a 70-year-old man, he's now nearly 60 and looks 11. Other than this "deformity," the ...