<![CDATA[Reunion: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Reunion: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576788m/418353.jpg 418353 4 The New York Times has called Alan Lightman “highly original and imaginative.” Each of his novels is a new exploration of that imagination, utterly unlike the others. Einstein’s Dreams, an international best-seller, was a whimsical and provocative tone poem about time. The Diagnosis, hailed by the Washington Post as a “major accomplishment” and a finalist for the National Book Award, was a disturbing examination of our obsession with speed, information, and money, and the resulting poverty of our spiritual lives. Lightman’s new novel, Reunion, is a delicate and haunting story of how we shape our identity through memory. Charles is a middle-aged professor at a minor liberal-arts college, a once promising poet, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Without knowing why, he decides to attend his thirtieth college reunion. And there, he magically witnesses a replay of his senior year. Drawn back into his memories, Charles watches his tender and romantic twenty-two-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 and 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. Written with crystalline prose, at once precise and mysterious, Reunion explores the pain of self-examination, the clay-like nature of memory, and the impossible hopefulness of youth. 549444 2003 Reunion: A Novel total:142|5:17|4:34|3:53|2:24|1:14| 142 442 194 13 1 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Apr 24 21:51:52 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 18:18:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 10:12:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 12:08:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 27 15:41:09 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 27 04:43:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Mar 22 08:19:52 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 22 08:21:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 00:42:08 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 10 05:33:19 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 14:54:18 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 14:55:24 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Apr 13 20:36:17 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 13 20:37:06 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sat Jun 23 08:40:32 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 08:40:32 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Wed Sep 05 20:03:16 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 16:44:37 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 20:42:01 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 20:42:16 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Fri Sep 07 21:12:41 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 21:12:53 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Apr 11 08:48:53 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 08:49:32 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Dec 23 20:42:44 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 14 21:39:00 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Dec 02 20:28:50 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 20:28:53 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Nov 23 21:44:02 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 21:44:02 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 17:32:28 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 17:32:28 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Nov 05 10:51:49 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 10:51:49 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Nov 02 19:57:52 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 19:57:52 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 27 10:39:23 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 10:39:23 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Oct 19 15:02:55 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 15:02:55 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=418353