Reunion

Charles, a once-promising poet, is a professor at a minor liberal arts college, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Now living a desperately comfortable existence, he decides to return to his thirtieth college reunion.

While there, he relives an intense love affair he had with a beautiful ballerina that forever changed his life. At times shocked, admiring, and furious with his younger self, Charles remembers contradictory versions of events, until reality and identity dissolve into a haze of illusion. Reunion explores the pain of self-examination, the clay-like nature of memory, and the fatal power of first love.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 11/09/2004
ISBN: 9780375713446
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.22w x 0.61d

Review Citations: Booklist 11/01/2004 pg. 458