Max Tivoli nasce nel 1871, a settant'anni. Sa dunque che morirΓ nel 1941. Chi Γ¨, o meglio, cos'Γ¨ Max Tivoli? Non c'Γ¨ nome per chi, come lui, viene "dall'altro capo della vita". E che maledizione Γ¨ diventare giovani col passare degli anni? Scoprire il sesso con il fisico di un cinquantatreenne e l'es
The Confessions of Max Tivoli
β Scribed by Andrew Sean Greer
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780312423810
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β¦ Synopsis
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An extraordinarily haunting love story told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards
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,...
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