The novel has appeared in over twenty-two countries. The novel reexplores the old theme of love and the role of time, and is reminiscent of Vonnegut’s science fiction, Grass’s picaresque Oskar Matzerath and Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert. In The New Yorker, John Updike wrote of the novel as "enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov." Time has dealt the protagonist a bad card: he is born into the world in the body of a seventy-year-old man, who becomes ever younger. This narrative frame explores the central theme in Greer's work: time as both the playground and stage for the bonds between humans who in their own way are all outsiders.īut it was his second novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, that drew national attention when it was published in 2004. It is the story of a group of astronomers who from 1965 to 1989 met every six years to observe a comet discovered by one of them. The San Francisco Chronicle listed the book as one of the five most important literary events of the year. One year later Greer achieved acclaim for his first novel, The Path of Minor Planets. The New York Times Book Review praised it, commenting that "Greer's descriptive talents are immense." He soon moved to Seattle, where he wrote for Nintendo and taught community college, then to San Francisco where he began to publish in magazines such as Esquire, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker before releasing a collection of his stories, How It Was for Me. After years in New York working as a chauffeur, television extra and unsuccessful writer, he moved to Missoula, Montana, where he received a master of fine arts degree from the University of Montana. He studied writing at Brown University, where he was the commencement speaker at his own graduation.
His latest novel, Less Is Lost, is out Sept 2022.Īndrew Sean Greer grew up, an identical twin, in the suburbs of Washington, DC, the son of scientists. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including Stanford and the Iowa Writers Workshop, been a TODAY show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. Andrew Sean Greer is the author of seven works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less.
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