num_pages: 288
description: "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.Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards, growing younger every year. And yet, his physical curse proves to be a blessing, allowing him to try to win the heart of the same woman three times as at each successive encounter she fails to recognize him, taking him for a stranger, so giving Max another chance at love.Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, Andrew Sean Greer's The Confessions of Max Tivoli is a beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, questioning the very nature of love, time, and what it means to be human.
language: English
title: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
titlecomplete: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
characters: Max Tivoli
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magical Realism, Coming Of Age, Romance, Novels, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 7404
places: San Francisco, California
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Gold)
publisher: Picador