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Reunion

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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.

Reunion
by Alan Lightman

  • Publication Date: November 9, 2004
  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN-10: 0375713441
  • ISBN-13: 9780375713446