Just a little note to tack onto Kate's post today -- I stumbled across a post on andrewgreer.com addressing the issue of the similarity between his novel and Benjamin Button. For us Greer fans who were a bit aghast and upset to see a movie possessing content like 'Button' and no mention of Andrew Sean Greer's name anywhere around or about it, here is what the author himself has to say.
For those of you who just want to read a synopsis of Greer's already short response, he basically says that the film version of Benjamin Button developed completely outside the realm of his novel, just as The Confessions of Max Tivoli developed in Greer's mind without him ever having even heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story.
Fitzgerald's 'Button' involves a character born aged of mind as well as body, whereas Greer's character Max ages backward while developmentally following the same path as all of his 'peers'. The movie has no, as Greer puts it, "three-act love story, no epic span". The stories are as different as dawn and twilight.
Also -- happy news! Andrew Greer has indeed written a third book called The Story of a Marriage. I'm going to buy it tomorrow.
Hopefully that will satisfy a little curiosity.
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