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Less

Less

Greer, Andrew Sean

Hardcover

Series: The Arthur Less Books, Book 1

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0316316121
ISBN13: 9780316316125
Publisher: Lee Boudreaux Books
Published: Jul 18 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Awards: Pulitzer Prize
In this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding.

Arresting lyricism and beauty --The New York Times Book Review

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 would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.

QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?

ANSWER: You accept them all.

What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.

Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.

A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as inspired, lyrical, elegiac, ingenious, as well as too sappy by half, Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.

I could not love LESS more. --Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful. --Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

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