The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells Hardcover - 2013
by Andrew Sean Greer
From the critically acclaimed author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Confessions of Max Tivoli" comes a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the "other lives" she might have lived.
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1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different eras.
During the course of her treatment, Greta cycles between her own time and alternate lives in 1918, where she is a bohemian adulteress, and 1941, which transforms her into a devoted mother and wife. Separated by time and social mores, Greta's three lives are remarkably similar, fraught with familiar tensions and difficult choices. Each reality has its own losses, its own rewards, and each extracts a different price. And the modern Greta learns that her alternate selves are unpredictable, driven by their own desires and needs.
As her final treatment looms, questions arise: What will happen once each Greta learns how to remain in one of the other worlds? Who will choose to stay in which life?
Magically atmospheric, achingly romantic, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells beautifully imagines "what if" and wondrously wrestles with the impossibility of what could be.
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- Title The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
- Author Andrew Sean Greer
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, New York
- Date 2013-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Deckle Edges, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780062213785 / 0062213784
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.68 x 5.84 x 1.03 in (24.59 x 14.83 x 2.62 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Man-woman relationships, Reincarnation
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/2013, Page 32
- BookPage, 07/01/2013, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2013, Page 0
- Library Journal, 03/01/2013, Page 70
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 02/01/2013, Page 50
- New York Times Book Review, 07/14/2013, Page 13
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/08/2013, Page 26
- Publishers Weekly, 04/15/2013, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 06/28/2013, Page 0
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