Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
Book 1 - The Arthur Less Books

Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize‪)‬

A Novel

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Publisher Description

A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award



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

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
July 18
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown and Company
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
4.1
MB

Customer Reviews

BigAppleGreg ,

Awkward Mirror

I have packed exercise bands for more than a decade, never use them on my travels. I see myself in this guy, minus true love, for the time being…
Just absolutely stunning, endearing, heart full. Loved this one, a favorite for sure. Love, a fellow bad gay.

Volunteer123456789 ,

Less

Pulitzer means nothing. This was awful!

GoodWritingFan ,

Less

I only got halfway through this pointless book, despite a valiant effort to read a novel deemed worthy of the Pulitzer Prize. It’s a genre I despise but is quite popular among the literati. It’s the tale of a man leading an unhappy, small, self-absorbed life that is as shallow as this novel.

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