Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

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
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Top Ten Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award

Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of five works of fiction, including The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel, but he is only big in Italy.

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ISBN 13	9780316529105
ISBN 10	0316529109
Title	Less
Author	Andrew Sean Greer
Series	The Arthur Less Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Lee Boudreaux Books
Year published	2018-07-17
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) 2018
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.