num_pages: 231
description: Charles, a once-promising poet, is a professor at a minor liberal arts college, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Now living a desperately comfortable existence, he decides to return to his thirtieth college reunion.While there, he relives an intense love affair he had with a beautiful ballerina that forever changed his life.  At times shocked, admiring, and furious with his younger self, Charles remembers contradictory versions of events, until reality and identity dissolve into a haze of illusion. Reunion explores the pain of self-examination, the clay-like nature of memory, and the fatal power of first love.
language: English
title: Reunion
titlecomplete: Reunion
genres: American, Psychology, Novels, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 541
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage