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  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2018)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (2017)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for International Book (2019)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018)
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ISBN: 9780316316132
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date of Publication: 2018-05-22
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Humor, Queer, LGBT
Goodreads rating: 3.64
(rated by 200899 readers)

Description

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.
 

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2018)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (2017)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for International Book (2019)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.