The child of two scientists, Greer studied writing with Robert Coover and Edmund White at Brown University, where he was the commencement speaker at his own graduation, where his unrehearsed remarks, critiquing Brown's admissions policies, caused a semi-riot.
He is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award. Magically atmospheric, achingly romantic, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells beautifully imagines "what if" and wondrously wrestles with the impossibility of what could be.Īndrew Sean Greer (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. What will happen once each Greta learns how to stay in one of the other worlds? Who will choose to remain in which life? And the modern Greta learns that her alternate selves are unpredictable, driven by their own desires and needs.Īs her final treatment looms, questions arise. Each reality has its own losses, its own rewards, and each extracts a different price. Separated by time and social mores, Greta's three lives are achingly similar, fraught with familiar tensions and difficult choices. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in a different era.ĭuring the course of her treatment, Greta cycles between her own time and her alternate lives in 1918, as a bohemian adulteress, and 1941, as a devoted mother and wife.
After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the break up with her long-time lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression.
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