Infant Under the Starry Sky: A Devilish Romantic's Confession

Author: Andrew Sean Greer
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Features: The Baby Below the Stars is so captivating, its fragrant and meticulously polished style has reached the height of the ornateness of Proust and Nabokov. Like Proust, the life he depicts is essentially an exile that is both lonely and constantly escaping the present, just like a dazzling mirage that constantly shifts and moves. Only a master of language can capture its charm in an instant. Max said, "Life is short and filled with sorrow, but I still love life." His heart-wrenching and distorted existence is presented in magnificent prose and a chiseled touch, resembling a special model among the various kinds of human beings—a strange and exaggerated, both mute and piercing one. —John Updike (John Updike)
By chance, such a primal voice, as if it came from nowhere, suddenly emerges, telling a story completely different from what we have heard before. Greer is a completely new writer, and I think, The Baby Below the Stars will mark the beginning of an important and long-lasting career for him. —Michael Cunningham (author of The Hour’s)
An extremely solemn and beautiful fable, in The Baby Below the Stars, Greer revisits the central theme he is concerned with in his novels: how time destroys love, and how love retaliates. —San Francisco Chronicle
Greer's prose is incredibly delicate; its light rhythm at the turn of the century and poetic radiance perfectly present this strange, heart-wrenching, and hypnotically enchanting legend. —Publishing Weekly
Our protagonist is a strange creature. At birth, his body is as aged as that of a seventy-year-old. Over time, he gradually ages from old to young, until he becomes a child. By the age of sixty, he looks like a ten-year-old.