As Max Saw It
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0449909476 / Publisher: Ballantine Books, April 1995
Fleeing the collapse of his first marriage, Max becomes a summer-house guest on Lake Como and meets two men who will shape his life--Charlie, a famous architect and Toby, his startlingly beautiful male companion. Reprint. NYT.
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"[A] perfectly constructed novel.... 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 protege and lover." --TimeBONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Louis Begley's Memories of a Marriage.
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