Bookworm

Bookworm

Andrew Sean Greer

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The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The hero of this novel is born an old man who ages backwards-not an unusual fantasy premise. What is unusual is the way Greer-s use of language raises the material from science fiction to a universal parable of memory and maturation.
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Michael Silverblatt

Bookworm Michael Silverblatt is the guy authors go to when they want a serious literary conversation about their writing, because Michael reads everything they’ve ever written, often surprising the authors with insights about their work that they themselves hadn’t realized.

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