The Confessions Of Max Tivoli
Max 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 own age - but to her, Max looks like an unappealingly middle-aged man....
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Max 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 own age - but to her, Max looks like an unappealingly middle-aged man. However when Max reaches the age of thirty-five, with an appearance to match, he has his second chance at love. But tragedy befalls this star-crossed couple, and desperate measures are required.
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ISBN:
9780571220229 (0571220223)
Publish date: April 7th 2005
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition language: English
"We are each the love of someone's life." It took me well over a hundred pages to fall in love with Max Tivoli, but I did. I fell in love with his sad, sentimental story. And Alice didn't deserve him. But I'm glad he got to know his son. The setting of time and place were perfect for this story. Ama...
Thought-provoking...and very sad.
Recommended to me by a friend, this is a good book - but not one that really suited my mood this week. It's a melancholy musing on the futility of love.The narrator, Max Tivoli, was born appearing to be a wizened old man of 70 - and for his entire life, ages backwards, gaining perspective and experi...
“I just wanted the main character to die so that the book would be over.” – a fellow book club memberSo, I didn’t feel quite that strongly about Max, but I did return it to the library as soon as I was finished, and I did thank the book gods that I hadn’t bought it. I was so anxious to be done with ...
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 ...
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