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.Reunionexplores the pain of self-examination, the clay-like nature of memory, and the fatal power of first love.

Author: Alan Lightman

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 231

Publisher: Vintage

Publication Date: 2004-11-09