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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

2013-06-25 Fiction
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Release : 2013-06-25
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by : Andrew Sean Greer

Download or read book The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells written by Andrew Sean Greer. This book was released on 2013-06-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Confessions of Max Tivoli comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the “other lives” she might have lived. After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present. Whisked from the gas-lit streets and horse-drawn carriages of the West Village to a martini-fueled lunch at the Oak Room, in these other worlds, Greta finds her brother alive and well—though fearfully masking his true personality. And her former lover is now her devoted husband…but will he be unfaithful to her in this life as well? Greta Wells is fascinated by her alter egos: in 1941, she is a devoted mother; in 1918, she is a bohemian adulteress. In this spellbinding novel by Andrew Sean Greer, each reality has its own losses, its own rewards; each extracts a different price. Which life will she choose as she wrestles with the unpredictability of love and the consequences of even her most carefully considered choices?

The Confessions of Max Tivoli

2007-04-01 Fiction
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Release : 2007-04-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 301/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Confessions of Max Tivoli written by Andrew Sean Greer. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less comes Andrew Sean Greer's 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 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 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, Max's 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 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.

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

2014 Domestic fiction
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Release : 2014
Genre : Domestic fiction
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Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells written by Andrew Sean Greer. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different eras

How It Was for Me

2000-04 Fiction
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Release : 2000-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 054/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis How It Was for Me by : Andrew Sean Greer

Download or read book How It Was for Me written by Andrew Sean Greer. This book was released on 2000-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the title story of this collection, neighborhood boys crouch in a backyard toolshed, and conspire to prove their piano teachers to be witches. In "Cannibal Kings," a disillusioned young man accompanies a troubled boy on a tour of prep schools through the Pacific Northwest, only to realize that he has lost his way in life. And in "Come Live With Me And Be My Love," a middle-aged gentleman looks back at his mannered early life as a Ivy Leaguer, married to a vivacious woman but silently yearning for his best friend -- and the sacrifices that each made to uphold their compromising bargain. With a classic storyteller's gift for nuance and understanding, and a poet's grace for language, Andrew Sean Greer makes a remarkable debut with How It Was For Me.

The Story of a Marriage

2008-04-29 Fiction
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Release : 2008-04-29
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 176/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Story of a Marriage by : Andrew Sean Greer

Download or read book The Story of a Marriage written by Andrew Sean Greer. This book was released on 2008-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Today Show Summer Reads Pick A Washington Post Book of the Year "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship--how we can ever truly know another person. It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health, but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep, and everything changes. Lyrical, and surprising, The Story of a Marriage is, in the words of Khaled Housseini, "a book about love, and it is a marvel to watch Greer probe the mysteries of love to such devastating effect."

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