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“Andrew Sean Greer’s The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells is a luminous inquiry into time itself, and Greta Wells, in her transit between three lives, is his most assured creation. What a lovely novel: stirring, inclusive, forgiving, and extraordinarily hopeful.” -- Jayne Anne Phillips4/4(). “Andrew Sean Greer’s The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells is a luminous inquiry into time itself, and Greta Wells, in her transit between three lives, is his most assured creation. What a lovely novel: stirring, inclusive, forgiving, and extraordinarily hopeful.” -- Jayne Anne Phillips4/5().  · With ‘The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells,’ Andrew Sean Greer again bends time to his will. By Ron Charles. THE IMPOSSIBLE LIVES OF GRETA WELLS. By Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer: Review. JB. By While The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells veers toward melodrama in a few instances and sometimes gets sidetracked in. Andrew Sean Greer. Home. Less Andrew Sean Greer Literature Fiction. Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes—it would be too awkward—and you can't say no—it. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells Quotes Showing of "So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.". ― Andrew Sean Greer, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells. tags: chauvinism, feminism, misogyny, womanhood. 41 likes.

From the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Confessions of Max Tivoli comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the "other lives" she might have lived. The clock is always ticking in Andrew Sean Greer’s “Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.”. Elegiac in tone, this tale of time travel, loss and compromise is as precisely engineered as a Swiss. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer 4 stars pp. Greta Wells, a young woman in loses her charismatic twin brother, Felix to AIDS and shortly after her boyfriend of ten years to his new love. She spirals into a dark and debilitating depression and while wishing for a monkey's paw to bring back the lost from her life, Greta finally opts for electro-convulsive therapy to pull her out of it.