His protagonist grapples with aging, loneliness, creativity, grief, self-pity and more.'― San Francisco Chronicle 'Greer's novel is philosophical, poignant, funny and wise, filled with unexpected turns.Although Greer is gifted and subtle in comic moments, he's just as adept at ruminating on the deeper stuff.

Greer's narration, so elegantly laced with wit, cradles the story of a man who loses everything: his lover, his suitcase, his beard, his dignity.' ― Ron Charles, Washington Post

'Greer is an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.' His metaphors come at you like fireflies.Like Arthur, Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. ' Less is the funniest, smartest and most humane novel I've read since Tom Rachman's 2010 debut, The Imperfectionists.Greer writes sentences of arresting lyricism and beauty. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. And there is his last.īecause, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.Ī 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. 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. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town? On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. You can't say yes-it would be too awkward-and you can't say no-it would look like defeat. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty.

It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.'-Christopher Buckley, New York Times Book Review 'Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. 'I could not love LESS more.'-Ron Charles, Washington Post

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award and the California Book Award A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of 'arresting lyricism and beauty' ( New York Times Book Review).Ī San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017

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