![]() ![]() And there is his last.īecause, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.Ī 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. 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. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town? ![]() Therefore, an understanding of the character Arthur Less is the crux of understanding the characterization of the novel ‘ Less. The other characters only exist to make Arthur Less’s significance more obvious. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Less Andrew Sean Greer The protagonist and eponymous character Arthur Less, is the sole focus of the novel. 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. You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. ![]() Who says you can't run away from your problems? ![]()
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