The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [x], 267, [2]. Pictorial stiff card wraps.

Author's second novel. Winner of the Gold Medal in Fiction at the 2005 California Book Awards. Named as one of the Best Books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle. A Today Book Club selection. "We are each the love of someone's life." Happiness keeps on eluding a star-crossed couple. A poignant novel set in San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century about a man born a Nisse, a creature from Danish folklore who appears to age backwards.

"A lot of people think of Max Tivoli as a romantic book but I [the author] think he's a very destructive character, and I think that kind of love is very selfish and thoughtless and hurtful and exciting and thrilling and what life is all about. All of those things at the same time." By the 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winner for his novel Less. "[A] writer of great daring and originality." –Peter Carey