num_pages: 160
description: "[A] perfectly constructed novel.... The time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer-house guest on Lake Como, where he encounters the two characters who will shape his life over the next 20 Charlie Swan, a Harvard classmate from the 1950s turned famous architect...and Toby, a poised and polymorphous teenager who is soon to become Charlie's protege and lover."     -- Time This edition includes an excerpt from Louis Begley's  Memories of a Marriage.
language: English
title: As Max Saw It
titlecomplete: As Max Saw It
genres: Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 122
publisher: Ballantine Books