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| Original Title: | Less ASIN B01MSICPW3 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Arthur Less |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2018), Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (2018), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018) |
Andrew Sean Greer
Kindle Edition | Pages: 273 pages Rating: 3.69 | 106233 Users | 12800 Reviews
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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.
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| Title | : | Less |
| Author | : | Andrew Sean Greer |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 273 pages |
| Published | : | July 18th 2017 by Lee Boudreaux Books |
| Categories | : | Fiction. LGBT. Contemporary |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 106233 Users | 12800 ReviewsCriticism Based On Books Less
For such a short book it took me a really long time to read. I wish I liked it more. I enjoyed the authors sense of humor but the story itself was awkwardly paced and though I spent a majority of the book in Arthurs head i didnt feel much of anything towards him.The last line of the book was great, it almost read like the author had that line in mind before he even started writing the book.A story of a 50-year-old man finding himself through world travel and written in a humorous tone shouldGo home, Pulitzer jury, you're drunk.
This is my favorite kind of story.Its a rendition of life in its mundanities and monotony, a display of the fallacies and frustrations that make up our daily story, but one that refuses to flinch away from the breath-stealing beauty of it. The miraculousness and gorgeousness and fated magic of life.And that type of story rarely wins awards. It is dismissed and mocked as treacly and feel-good. In all honesty I feel that if this book were written about or by a woman, itd be relegated to a corner
SHARING & REVIEWING:I cant believe Im writing this review the same day I came home from surgery.... but other than a little tire - Im feeling great.....happy with what my surgeon did. After 3 surgeries last year for skin cancer - the loss of a half of a nose - a slice down my forehead- today was my first repair surgery. Im blown away - my nose almost looks normal. Wow...such a huge difference already. Sure - I need to heal- stitches and such - but its a miracle what the surgeon did. Really a
Fantastically written, both witty and gut-bustlingly funny, and empathic in all the right ways, LESS is a very fine book. As advertised, it was a truly entertaining read and one that often showcased a real talent for emotional depth, while still maintaining that sly edge of humorand this is no easy task, as combining the sad and funny is a true fine line. As a writer (and an even less important one than the self-effacing main character, Arthur Less), I found it thoroughly enjoyable to read about
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4ish stars.Such a clever book. For the first third or so, I felt like there was something missing. Was this really deserving of the Pulitzer? (PULL-it-sir, by the way, not PEW-lit-zer, as the characters and I learn). I couldn't quite put my finger on it... Too spoony? Too magniloquent (with the use of words such as peripateticism, quaalude, and magniloquent)? More like too insubstantial. Funny but fluffy. As Less's journey around the world continues, however, his story becomes fuller, deeper,
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