Who 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 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. 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.
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I really like the tone of this novel. On the one hand, It was told in a direct and detailed way that as a reader, I could depict the scense with flesh in my mind. On the other hand, despite the closeness, all the emotions in the story are still slightly det...
评分赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都，体验了日本的怀石料理，中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中，莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年，那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘，...
评分I really like the tone of this novel. On the one hand, It was told in a direct and detailed way that as a reader, I could depict the scense with flesh in my mind. On the other hand, despite the closeness, all the emotions in the story are still slightly det...
评分赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都，体验了日本的怀石料理，中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中，莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年，那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘，...
评分I really like the tone of this novel. On the one hand, It was told in a direct and detailed way that as a reader, I could depict the scense with flesh in my mind. On the other hand, despite the closeness, all the emotions in the story are still slightly det...
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what was the Pulitzer committee thinking?
评分So many great quotes, and such flowery language. ????
评分好像从来没读过comic novel? 比喻太有意思了，听有声书的时候能笑出声来。“From where I sit, the story of Arthur Less is not so bad.” 作者的度掌握得很好，自嘲也很到位. Who would feel sorry for an almost-fifty white gay man travelling around the world just to escape ex-lover’s wedding? 当Less到了京都坐在川端康成最爱的房间里吃怀石料理的时候，我几乎打算讨厌他了。一个永远天真没有盔甲又笨拙的人真的就会获得更多偏爱么？这个世界大概是不太公平的，也能有人suffer with a reward…
评分2018普利策奖？
评分A gay Odyssey. An attribute to Proust. A love story crafted with polyphony narrative. Beautiful language and lovely to read but is it too readable to be a prize winner?
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