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As Max Saw It Ballantine Books 1994 ISBN#0-449-90947-6 |
A New York Times Notable Book Selected Reviews Time "What's the Diffidence?" by Walter Shapiro--April 18, 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Review "Passion Bubbles Over in a Rarefied World" by Georgia Jones-Davis--April 28, 1994 USA Today "The Transforming Power of Love" by Peter Filkins, June 17, 1994 Chicago Tribune "Fiction Addiction: Begley's Talents Outshine Dark Subjects of His Novels" by John Blade--April 18, 1994 Book Jacket Synopsis The time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer house guest on Lake Como, where he encounters the two characters who will shape his life over the next 20 years: Charlie Swan, a Harvard classmate from the 1950s turned famous architect....and Toby, a poised and polymorphous teenager who is soon to become Charlie's protégé and lover. |
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Copyright 2003,
Louis Begley |
