Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long by Robert A. Heinlein 589 pp.
Lazarus Long (born Woodrow Wilson Smith) is the oldest person in the universe having lived many lifetimes on many worlds. His extended life of over 2000 years is a product of the Howard Families genetic experiments which are too convoluted to explain and I'm not sure I really understand it all. The story contains various episodes of his life with his wives and children mostly told by Long himself. To give a brief description of it is nearly impossible. I really enjoyed this book and rank it equal to, or even better than Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. Published in 1973, Heinlein channels the sexual freedom that took hold in the late 1960s through the 1970s in the attitudes of the characters toward free love. I won't reveal the ending but it involves Long time traveling back to see his parents.
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