A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, The Confessions of Max Tivoli reveals the world through the eyes of monster, a being who confounds the very certainties by which people live and, in doing so, embodies in extremis what it means to be human.
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..
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.
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.
So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli , a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other.
We are each the love of someone\'s life.
A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, The Confessions of Max Tivoli reveals the world through the eyes of monster, a being who confounds the very certainties by which people live and, in doing so, embodies in extremis what it means to be human
