{"product_id":"less-book-andrew-sean-greer-9780316529105","title":"Less","description":"\u003cb\u003eA struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of \"arresting lyricism and beauty\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Top Ten Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e Top Ten Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eQUESTION\u003c\/b\u003e: How do you arrange to skip town?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eANSWER\u003c\/b\u003e: You accept them all.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat would possibly go wrong?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e is, above all, a love story.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e has hailed as \"inspired, lyrical,\" \"elegiac,\" \"ingenious,\" as well as \"too sappy by half,\" \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"I could not love LESS more.\"--Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Andrew Sean Greer's \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.\"-\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003eChristopher Buckley\u003ci\u003e, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49509084332305,"sku":"CIN0316529109G","price":4.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643706745105,"sku":"GOR010333414","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50891841143057,"sku":"GOR014108010","price":14.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001125044497,"sku":"NIN9780316529105","price":37.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51136915079441,"sku":"CIN0316529109VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316529109.jpg?v=1750941316","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/less-book-andrew-sean-greer-9780316529105","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}