This work is reprinted almost exactly as it was found in an attic in 1947. Some errors, such as spelling and punctuation, have been corrected, some illegible words (such as in the thunderstorm passage) have been deduced from context, but errors of history, geography, and medicine have been allowed to remain. Printed by permission of the Samuel Harper Foundation.
I am grateful to the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, for the memoirs, diaries, and letters I was allowed to search through, as well as to the San Francisco History Center at the San Francisco Public Library. This book would not have been possible without the generosity of the MacDowell and Yaddo colonies and their benefactors. Thanks also to Jonathan Galassi, Carla Cohen, Susan Mitchell, Spenser Lee, and Jessica Craig and to my friends and family and everyone at FSG, Picador, and Burnes & Clegg. Of course to Bill Clegg himself, to whom this is dedicated. Best thanks of all to Frances Coady, who tended Max and transfused him with her very blood. And to David Ross, who never had any doubts.
Andrew Sean Greer is the author of the story collection
How It Was for Me
and the novel
The Path of Minor Planets.
He lives in San Francisco.
THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI. Copyright © 2004 by Andrew Sean Greer.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Greer, Andrew Sean.
The confessions of Max Tivoli / Andrew Sean Greer.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-42381-0
EAN 978-0312-42381-0
1. Triangles (Interpersonal rotations)—Fiction. 2. Immortalism—Fiction. 3. Aging—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3557.R3987C66 2004
n—
813’.54—dc21
2003054737
First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux