Less : a novel

Summary: "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.

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ISBN: 9780316316125
ISBN: 0316316121
ISBN: 9780316316132
ISBN: 031631613X
ISBN: 9780349143590
ISBN: 0349143595
Physical Description: print
263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: ©2017
Copyright: ©2017

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"A Lee Boudreaux book." "July 2017"--Title page verso.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Illustrations by Lilli Carré .
Awards Note:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2018.

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