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. 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. Homosexuality in itself could be said to be a major theme throughout the novel. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. Less by Andrew Sean Greer is a work of fiction that seeks to depict the lifestyle associated with homosexuality. You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. LESS by Andrew Sean Greer RELEASE DATE: JFacing his erstwhile boyfriend’s wedding to another man, his 50th birthday, and his publisher’s rejection of his latest manuscript, a miserable midlist novelist heads for the airport. Who says you can't run away from your problems?
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