{"product_id":"the-impossible-lives-of-greta-wells-paperback","title":"The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Sean Greer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eLess \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eLess is Lost\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Impossible Lives of Greta Wells \u003c\/em\u003eis a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the \"other lives\" she might have lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and the Greta of 1985 finds herself transported to remarkably similar lives in different eras--as a bohemian and adulteress in 1918, and a devoted wife and mother in 1941--fraught with familiar tensions and difficult choices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraveling through time, the modern Greta learns that each reality has its own losses and rewards, and that her alternate selves are unpredictable, driven by their own desires and needs. And as the final treatment looms, one of these other selves could change everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagically atmospheric, achingly romantic, \u003cem\u003eThe Impossible Lives of Greta Wells\u003c\/em\u003e beautifully imagines what if and wondrously wrestles with the impossibility of what could be.\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and the Greta of 1985 finds herself transported to remarkably similar lives in different eras--as a bohemian and adulteress in 1918, and a devoted wife and mother in 1941--fraught with familiar tensions and difficult choices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraveling through time, the modern Greta learns that each reality has its own losses and rewards, and that her alternate selves are unpredictable, driven by their own desires and needs. And as the final treatment looms, one of these other selves could change everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagically atmospheric, achingly romantic, \u003cem\u003eThe Impossible Lives of Greta Wells\u003c\/em\u003e beautifully imagines \"what if\" and wondrously wrestles with the impossibility of what could be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42135845240967,"sku":"9780062213792","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ce208f36ba1919d361ccfe60dc0558a5.webp?v=1732652322","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-impossible-lives-of-greta-wells-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}