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Born as an old man, Max Tivoli lives his life aging backwards, falling in love and living an odd, sometimes terrifying life in San Francisco at the turn of the nineteenth century.
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Aging, Jugend, Magic, Romantic love, Danish Mythology, Secrets, Fantasy fiction, Men, Liebe, Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Immortalism, Mann, Love, Unrequited love, Alter, Psychological fiction, Novela psicológica, Triángulos amorosos, Inmortalismo, Novela fantástica, Ficción, Envejecimiento, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, fantasy, generalPeople
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Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel
2007, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
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Die erstaunliche Geschichte des Max Tivoli
Sep 01, 2006, FISCHER Taschenbuch
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
January 13, 2005, Picador
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Reading Group Guide: A Novel
Feb 01, 2005, Picador
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Die erstaunliche Geschichte des Max Tivoli
Feb 28, 2005, Fischer S. Verlag GmbH
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The Confessions of Max Tivioli - Easelback: A Novel
Feb 01, 2005, Picador
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Ai qing de mi di: The confessions of Max Tivoli
2004, Da kuai wen hua chu ban gu fen you xiao gong si
in Chinese
- Chu ban
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Las Confesiones de Max Tivoli
November 2004, Destino Ediciones
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in Spanish
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
2004, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- 1st ed.
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
2004, Leicester
in English
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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, and Max is given another chance at love.
Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, Max's life and confessions question the very nature of time, of appearance and reality, and of love itself. A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, The Confessions of Max Tivoli reveals the world through the eyes of a "monster," a being who confounds the very certainties by which we live and in doing so embodies in extremis what it means to be human.
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