{"product_id":"less","title":"Less","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Arresting lyricism and beauty\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eQUESTION\u003c\/b\u003e: How do you arrange to skip town? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eANSWER\u003c\/b\u003e: You accept them all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat would possibly go wrong? \u003c\/i\u003eArthur 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e is, above all, a love story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ehas 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I could not love \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLESS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e more.\" --Ron Charles, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.\" --Christopher Buckley, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTop Ten Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTop Ten Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52317697933528,"sku":"9780316316132","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0369\/4552\/files\/imageloader_81e5b592-04b2-4bf3-91f2-7d0f66eb2b24.jpg?v=1787949749","url":"https:\/\/bigredbooks.shop\/products\/less","provider":"Big Red Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}