QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town? 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.

A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. Thank you.A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of 'arresting lyricism and beauty' ( New York Times Book Review). We love it when you pin and share our book reviews. See our top ten blogs of 2021 The Best of My Fab Fifties Life 2021 See last week’s book review The Promise by Damon Galgut *****Five stars for Less by Andrew Sean Greer Isn’t that what we all want? I hope you enjoyed my book review Less by Andrew Sean Greer. The adventures of Arthur Less will have you laughing and crying and being hopeful for this man who just wants to be happy and be loved.

Greer creates a lovable character in Arthur Less, and a fun and sentimental story as Arthur Less begins a world literary tour, running from his own problems to numb the loss of the man he loves.įrom New York City to Mexico City to Berlin to Morocco to India, Greer brilliantly builds this novel part love story, part travel story, Less is a look at navigating loss and midlife and coming out whole on the other side. When Arthur’s latest book is rejected by his publisher, and Arthur’s latest love Freddy is marrying someone else, Less is lost. Here is my book review Less by Andrew Sean Greer.Īrthur Less, mildly successful author is less known for his own writing than for his long relationship with Pulitzer Prize wining poet Robert Brownburn. This fun and funny 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning novel will surely put a smile on your face.

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