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Original Title:	The Confessions of Max Tivoli
ISBN:	0312423810 (ISBN13: 9780312423810)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Max Tivoli
Setting:	San Francisco, California(United States)
Literary Awards:	New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2005), California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2004)

The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Andrew Sean Greer

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 6664 Users | 832 Reviews

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Title	:	The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Author	:	Andrew Sean Greer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2005 by Picador USA (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels

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"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.

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I loved the movie Benjamin Button. I loved Brad Pitt playing Benjamin Button. Not even the idea of visualizing Brad Pitt reading me this book while soaking up some sun with a margarita in hand would make this book any better.I cannot remember the last time I disliked a character so much all I wanted to do was punch his whole face in. Whiny, selfish and immature, Max Tivoli kind of makes me hate Brad Pitt, and all the man did was play the main character in the adaptation of this book. And while I

It is a delicate task to write a book in which the main character repeatedly ruins the life of and frightens almost to death another major character and to make that protagonist sympathetic. You understand why he does what he does, you see how he fools himself into believing the consequences of his actions will not be bad as they truly unfold to be, and you watch with great empathy for both him and his victim. It is a balancing act to show such obsessive love as Andrew Sean Greer does in The

Andrew Sean Greer's novel took a bit of time to weave its spell for me, but once the spell was cast, I was thoroughly enchanted. Greer conjures up a gorgeous, bustling turn-of-the-20th-century San Francisco, my beloved City, with details so precise and poignant that they will stay with you long after you are done reading. And Max Tivoli, born old and growing ever younger, faces terrible obstacles in love, but then, so do we all. "Be what they think you are," Max Tivoli's parents implore him at

What a fascinating and original book. Set during turn of the century San Francisco, poor Max Tivoli is a boy unlike any other. He is born a tiny, wrinkled old man and ages in reverse. This story follows his life as he tries to adjust to his condition. His mother teaches him to live by the golden rule: Be what they think you are. However, Max considers himself a monster. In fact, this is a memoir of an extremely sensitive, but sometimes selfish, man who wants nothing but what life has to offer.

This was a lovely, sad book about a man with Benjamin Buttons aging quandary and elements of Midsummer Nights Dream everybody-loves-the-wrong-person dilemma. The author does a wonderful job re-creating the aura of the turn of the century and beyond, through which Max uncomfortably makes his way, not really being what he appears to be. His discomfort and pain are well conveyed, as are those of the other important people in his life when we learn their secrets. Charming and heartbreaking-I really

This is one of the more finely wrought things I've read in a while. The prose is beautiful (some might say purple, but it really worked for me), the story weird and funny (and sometimes a little creepy) and crushing. I read it quickly but it deserves to be read slowly.

I read this book years ago and it has remained one of my favorites. I'm still recommending it to people. Much like One Hundred Years of Solitude, it's a moving, sad, and funny story about love. It's hard to imagine (although impossible) what it would be like to age backwards. The levels and types of love displayed in this book are amazing. You won't be able to put it down.