# Less - Hardcover

by **Andrew Sean Greer** (Author)

****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_**

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** July 17, 2018

**Large Print:** Yes

**Award:** Pulitzer Prize (2018)

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