Following his life-lived-backwards second novel The Confessions of Max Tivoli (only $6.00) and his postwar interracial gay romance, The Story of a Marriage ($5.60), Andrew Sean Greer releases tomorrow his fourth novel, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
[Kindle]
about a time-traveling woman. After two books with FSG he switches to Ecco, which says:
"After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present. Whisked from the gas-lit streets and horse-drawn carriages of the West Village to a martini-fueled lunch at the Oak Room, in these other worlds, Greta finds her brother alive and well—though fearfully masking his true personality. And her former lover is now her devoted husband…but will he be unfaithful to her in this life as well? Greta Wells is fascinated by her alter egos: in 1941, she is a devoted mother; in 1918, she is a bohemian adulteress."
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