Research Catalog

Title

Less : a novel / Andrew Sean Greer.

Author

Greer, Andrew Sean

Publication

• New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, [2017]
• ©2017

Supplementary Content

Pulitzer Prize

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

263 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
• "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."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Authors > Fiction
• Gay novelists > Fiction
• Gay men > Fiction
• Voyages and travels > Fiction
• Gay novelists
• Authors
• Gay men
• Voyages and travels

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Humorous fiction.
• Satire.
• Satirical literature.

Note

• "A Lee Boudreaux book."
• "July 2017"--Title page verso.

Credits (note)

• Illustrations by Lilli Carré.

Awards (note)

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2018.

Call Number

JFE 19-4721

ISBN

• 9780316316125
• 0316316121

LCCN

• 2016946554
• 99974562528

OCLC

962814984

Author

Greer, Andrew Sean, author.

Title

Less : a novel / Andrew Sean Greer.

Publisher

New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Nationality/regional group: Californians

Nationality/regional group: Americans

Gender group: Men

Pulitzer Prize winners

Credits

Illustrations by Lilli Carré.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2018.

Connect to:

Pulitzer Prize

Other Standard Identifier

99974562528

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4721