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8 hours, 20 minutesWho 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 wrongArthur 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. New Read [ Less ] author [ Andrew Sean Greer ] – kino-fada.fr What a soft hearted bastard of a novel.It s the story of a failed failing novelist about to turn fifty His long time lover is marrying someone else, and he s been invited to the wedding To avoid the whispers and rumors that would abound, he takes the only course of action he can imagine accepting every literary invitation he s been putting off, a journey that will take him around the globe and well away from the wedding of the man he loved Loves It had me from the first page, and I m no What a soft hearted bastard of a novel.It s the story of a failed failing novelist about to turn fifty His long time lover is marrying someone else, and he s been invited to the wedding To avoid the whispers and rumors that would abound, he takes the only course of action he can imagine accepting every literary invitation he s been putting off, a journey that will take him around the globe and well away from the wedding of the man he loved Loves It had me from the first page, a...I wanted to dislike this book for petty reasons grounded in irrationality but it s quite a brilliant novel, with exceptional writing and a depth of character rarely seen in fiction I m also surprised I loved this book because I hate books about writers.Less is a frustrating man who gets in his own way all too often There were many times when I wanted him to get his head out of his ass Also, the narration doesn t quite work until the very end and then it all makes sense so I had to go back and I wanted to dislike this book for petty reasons grounded in irrationality but it s quite a brilliant novel, with exceptional writing and a depth of character rarely seen in fiction I m also surprised I loved this book because I hate books about writers.Less is a frustrating man who gets in his own way all too often There were many times when I wanted him to get his head out of his ass Also, the narration doesn t quite work until the very end and then it all makes sense so I had to go back and read certain parts But it s fine As a middle aged midlist writer, Arthur Less s laments are many He needs money His long term not boyfriend is getting married And so he fashions an itinerary that will have traveling the world and as he travels the world, we learn of how he comes to this moment in his life, turning fifty, alone, full of longing There is a lot that is funny a...SHARING REVIEWING I can t believe I m writing this review the same day I came home from surgery but other than a little tire I m 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 I m blown away my nose almost looks normal Wowsuch a huge difference already Sure I need to heal stitches and such but it s a miracle what the surgeon SHARING REVIEWING ...It s been said in a catty way, of course that after age 42 gay men become invisible, that no one wants an older gay man except, if they re lucky, another gay man Andrew Sean Greer s beautifully moving but slightly uneven new novel, Less , deals with a man coming to terms approaching his 50th birthday, wondering if he ll ever find true love, and trying to define himself and his career No small feat, there When he was in his early 20s, he was the boyfriend of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rober It s been said in a catty way, of course that after age 42 gay men become invisible, that no one wants an older gay man except, if they re lucky, another gay man Andrew Sean Greer s beautifully moving but slightly uneven new novel, Less , deals with a man coming to terms approaching his 50th birthday, wondering if he ll ever find true love, and trying to define himself and his career No small feat, there When he was in his early 20s, he was the boyfriend of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Robert Brownburn, who was a member of the famed Russian River School of writers and artists Even though the relationship ended after a few years, Arthur has always been defined somewhat as the former...There is no story the main character is totally uninteresting and evokes no positive feelings the writing is competent but snarky, and also repetitive the tour guide information, country after country, is paper thin and offers no particular insightsThis is a beautifully written, lyrical, comic, often profound and moving Pulitzer winning novel, to me it often feels like a gay version of Eat, Pray, Love A little known, gay and inconsequential writer, Arthur Less, is approaching 50 with fear, his body is displaying all the physical symptoms of getting older In his mind, he is the first gay man to face the quandry of the aging process, he has known hardly any gay men who have lived to this age His problems are intensified because his curren This is a beautifully written, lyrical, comic, often profound and moving Pulitzer winning novel, to me it often feels like a gay version of Eat, Pray, Love A little known, gay and inconsequential writer, Arthur Less, is approaching 50 with fear, his body is displaying all the physical symptoms of getting older In his mind, he is the first gay man to face the quandry of the aging process, he has known hardly any gay men who have lived to this age His problems are intensified because his current amour has dropped him and he has received a wedding invitation from the love of his life, a famous celebrity poet, Robert, a man with whom he had a relationship for nine years What to do He just can t attend the wedding, so to distract himself he chooses to accept invites to literary events around the world in search of himself and who he is.On his meandering travels that include India, Germany, France, Mexico, Italy, Morocco, and Japan, through which Less s colourful, exciting and jam...An Evening With Arthur Less and yours truly I ve been writing lots of traditional reviews for work lately, so I thought I d try to make this one fun and entertaining to write and hopefully read If you ll indulge me, here s a QA with Arthur Less, the main character of Andrew Sean Greer s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Less First a bit of background Less is a middle aged, midlist novelist, who s about to turn 50, and at the beginning of the book he s just found out that Freddy, his youn An Evening With Arthur Less and yours truly I ve been writing lots of traditional reviews for work lately, so I thought I d try to make this one fun and entertaining to write and hopefully read If you ll indulge me, here s a QA with Arthur Less, the main character of Andrew Sean Greer s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Less First a bit of background Less is a middle aged, midlist novelist, who s about to turn 50, and at the beginning of the book he s just found out that Freddy, his younger lover sorta boyfriend of the past nine years, is about to get married to another man Rather than go to ...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, wi 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, wiser.One can t help but wonde...The writing was magnificent, the witticisms numerous, but couldn t get into the all over the place story. Less follows almost fifty year old Arthur Less, a not so popular novelist whose boyfriend of the past nine years is about to marry someone else When Less gets the wedding invite, he decides to skip town and travel all around the world to different literary events We accompany Less as he adventures to Paris, Berlin, India, and .Cutting to the chase I did not like this book Certain elements had potential, such as Less s fear of aging and his emotions surrounding past romantic relationships Less follows almost fifty year old Arthur Less, a not so popular novelist whose boyfriend of the past nine years is about to marry someone else When Less gets the wedding invite, he decides to skip town and travel all around the world to different literary events We accompany Less as he adventures to Pa...

Less
  • English
  • 17 August 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 273 pages
  • Andrew Sean Greer
  • Less