Because, 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. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?Īrthur 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. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1).

Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. This time, Greer's protagonist Arthur Less. Andrew Sean Greer (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1) - Kindle edition by Greer, Andrew Sean. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. In this episode, WBUR's Robin Young talks with author Andrew Sean Greer about his new novel Less is Lost, the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Less. Homosexuality in itself could be said to be a major theme throughout the novel. You can't say yes - it would be too awkward - and you can't say no - it would look like defeat. Less by Andrew Sean Greer is a work of fiction that seeks to depict the lifestyle associated with homosexuality. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. Who says you can't run away from your problems?

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