| Reunion Contributor(s): Lightman, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375713441 ISBN-13: 9780375713446 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: Charles, a once-promising poet, is a professor at a minor liberal arts college, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Now living a desperately comfortable existence, he decides to return to his thirtieth college reunion. While there, he relives an intense love affair he had with a beautiful ballerina that forever changed his life. At times shocked, admiring, and furious with his younger self, Charles remembers contradictory versions of events, until reality and identity dissolve into a haze of illusion. Reunion explores the pain of self-examination, the clay-like nature of memory, and the fatal power of first love. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.22" W x 8.08" (0.56 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Charles, a once-promising poet, is a professor at a minor liberal arts college, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Now living a desperately comfortable existence, he decides to return to his thirtieth college reunion. While there, he relives an intense love affair he had with a beautiful ballerina that forever changed his life. At times shocked, admiring, and furious with his younger self, Charles remembers contradictory versions of events, until reality and identity dissolve into a haze of illusion. Reunion explores the pain of self-examination, the clay-like nature of memory, and the fatal power of first love. |