The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

Description

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Less and Less is Lost

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells is a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the “other lives” she might have lived.

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.

In this spellbinding novel by Andrew Sean Greer, each reality has its own losses, its own rewards; each extracts a different price. Which life will she choose as she wrestles with the unpredictability of love and the consequences of even her most carefully considered choices?

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
Published: 04/15/2014
Publisher: Ecco Press
ISBN: 9780062213792
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 8.00″ L x 5.20″ W

About the Author
Greer, Andrew Sean: –

Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was a Today book club selection and received a California Book Award. He lives in San Francisco.