Less remembers Alex in his headstrong days, when he wore a luxuriant Afro and exclaimed his poetry at the dinner table; last time they met, Alex was bald as a malted milk ball. He wanted to buy my old letters, notes, correspondence. Less is amazed how quickly intelligence moves around the world.
Will you come? And we can chat about the wedding. Very pretty. And that little scandal! So much to talk about. See you soon! Less is left breathless below an old house all covered in vines. A group of schoolgirls passes in two straight lines. He is certainly going to the party now, if only because he cannot help himself. A very pretty wedding.
Less by Andrew Sean Greer. Young Arthur Less! Release 18 July Search for a digital library with this title Search by city, ZIP code, or library name Learn more about precise location detection.
View more libraries 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. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.
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. 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.
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