Reunion
- ISBN-10
- 030742748X
- ISBN-13
- 9780307427489
- Series
- Reunion
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-12-18
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Alan Lightman
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.
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