Talking about "LESS", by Andrew Sean Greer, Winner of the Pulitzer prize (2018)

My own personal views:
I just finished reading the book. It's a very unusual and very well written love story. The end is well worth all the pages needed to get there. If not for the book club, I never would have read that book, had he not won a Pulitzer prize. Now that I've read it, it has enriched my life somehow and added beauty and grace and a pure forgiving love to my life. Thank you, Andrew Sean Greer, for that book.
Written on Sunday, Oct 1, 2023
at 4:45 pm, in Montreal.

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Less

A novel by Andrew Sean Greer
Winner of the Pulitzer prize (2018)

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).

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award

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Reviews

"Less is the funniest, smartest and most humane novel I've read since Tom Rachman's 2010 debut, The Imperfectionists....Greer writes sentences of arresting lyricism and beauty. His metaphors come at you like fireflies....Like Arthur, Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."
―New York Times Book Review

"Greer is an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy.... Brilliantly funny.... Greer's narration, so elegantly laced with wit, cradles the story of a man who loses everything: his lover, his suitcase, his beard, his dignity."―Ron Charles, Washington Post

"Greer elevates Less' picaresque journey into a wise and witty novel. This is no Eat, Pray Love story of touristic uplift, but rather a grand travelogue of foibles, humiliations and self-deprecation, ending in joy, and a dollop of self-knowledge."―National Book Review

"Dressed in his trademark blue suit, Less adorably butchers the German language, nearly falls in love in Paris, celebrates his birthday in the desert and, somewhere along the way, discovers something new and fragile about the passing of time, about the coming and going of love, and what it means to be the fool of your own narrative. It's nothing less than wonderful."―Book Page

"Greer's evocations of the places Arthur visits offer zesty travelogue pleasures"―Seattle Times