The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less.’Here is a writer of great daring and originality . . . Max Tivoli may even make you cry.’ Peter CareyMax Tivoli is writing the story of his life. He is nearly seventy years old, but he looks as if he is only seven – for Max is ageing backwards. The tragedy of Max’s life was to fall in love at seventeen with Alice, a girl his….Read More
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