Novel about a professor at an obscure college, a once promising poet, admiring of passion but without passion himself, who, without knowing why, decides to attend his 30th college reunion. Drawn back into his memories, Charles observeshis 22-year-old self embark on an all-consuming love affair with a beautiful dancer. As the two young people struggle to find themselves amidst the social & political chaos of the late 1960s, the older Charles recalls contradictory versions of his past, ultimately confronting for the second time a series of devastating events that would forever change his life. From the author of "Einstein's Dreams" and "The Diagnosis" (a National Book Award finalist). 231p.
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Novel about a professor at an obscure college, a once promising poet, admiring of passion but without passion himself, who, without knowing why, decides to attend his 30th college reunion. Drawn back into his memories, Charles observeshis 22-year-old self embark on an all-consuming love affair with a beautiful dancer. As the two young people struggle to find themselves amidst the social & political chaos of the late 1960s, the older Charles recalls contradictory versions of his past, ultimately confronting for the second time a series of devastating events that would forever change his life. From the author of "Einstein's Dreams" and "The Diagnosis" (a National Book Award finalist). 231p.