The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062213785)

From the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Confessions of Max Tivoli comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, 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?

Author: Andrew Sean Greer
ISBN-10: 0062213784
ISBN-13: 9780062213785
Publisher: Ecco Press
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2013
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.68h x 5.84w x 1.03d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2013 pg. 50
Library Journal 03/01/2013 pg. 70
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2013
Publishers Weekly 04/15/2013
Booklist 06/01/2013 pg. 32
Shelf Awareness 06/28/2013
New York Times Book Review 07/14/2013 pg. 13
New York Times Book Review 07/21/2013 pg. 22
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/08/2013 pg. 26
BookPage 07/01/2013
Library Journal 02/01/2013