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From the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less comes Andrew Sean Greers extraordinarily haunting love story The Confessions of Max Tivoli, told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards.

A Today Show Book Club Pick

We are each the love of someones life.

So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Maxs 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 mans body. But his curse is also his blessing: as he gets older, his body grows younger, so each successive time he finds his Alice, she does not recognize him. She takes him for a stranger, and Max is given another chance at love.

Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, Maxs life and confessions question the very nature of time, of appearance and reality, and of love itself. A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, Andrew Sean Greers 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.

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A Today Show Book Club Pick

We are each the love of someones life.

So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Maxs 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.

Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, Maxs life and confessions question the very nature of time, of appearance and reality, and of love itself. A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, Andrew Sean Greers 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.

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A heartbreaking and daring love story that questions the nature of time, appearance, and reality, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less.

We are each the love of someones life.

So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Andrew Sean Greers extraordinarily haunting novel. At his birth, Maxs 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 backwardon the outside a very old man, but inside still a fearful child.

Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, Maxs life and confessions reveal 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.

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