In America, our idea of the great American novel is deeply serious: 800 pages, by a straight white man.
Why, in the literary world, are comic novels are often deemed less important than serious ones?
So I wrote a book that tackles that, but is about joy. It’s not that I’m not aware of the horrible way the world is. That’s exactly what I was feeling when I wrote Less. I was reading an article in the New York Times about how fashion needs to be more full of joy. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.Less is the first comic novel to win the Pulitzer in years. "I could not love LESS more."-Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. 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. 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? ANSWER: You accept them all. 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. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEĪ San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017 A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" ( The New York Times Book Review).
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