The Confessions of Max Tivoli

A heartbreaking and daring love story that questions the nature of time, appearance, and reality, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less.

We are each the love of someone's life.

So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Andrew Sean Greer's extraordinarily haunting novel. 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...