He has read all of books by the author-H. Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good US 3.24 Convert currency US 3.75 Shipping Within U.S.A. He knows why he was asked to host the event: He is desperate enough not to ask to be paid. Less: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018 Greer, Andrew Sean Published by Abacus, 2018 ISBN 10: 0349143595 ISBN 13: 9780349143590 Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, U.S.A. The young woman finally finds him and leads him to the event. A clock chiming the hour alerts Less to his own lateness. He has dedicated the past nine years to a younger man. Less has never developed a hardened edge to the world, and he exists in danger of heartbreak.
He is in New York to interview a famous science fiction author at the literary event. Meanwhile, Less continues to stare at a broken clock. Having read one of Less’s novels, she was certain the compelling female narrator could only have been written by a woman. She is the person who will escort him to the event, though she “believes Arthur Less to be a woman” (9). Near him, a young Japanese woman in a brown coat flits between the female guests. He is a writer, approaching 50, and does not know that he is late for a literary event. You'd think that demonstration of love would be enough, but Less is a chronically uncertain person, prone to what Freddy, who acts as our occasional narrator, calls a "clumsiness of the heart." The death here of Less' first love, the famous poet Robert Brownburn, only deepens Less's uncertainty, since it turns out that Less owes a decade of back rent on the San Francisco bungalow he's been living in that was owned by Brownburn.Arthur Less sits in a hotel lobby with a Russian cosmonaut’s helmet. Less is Lost picks up with Arthur Less now living with that aforementioned partner, Freddy Pelu, who left his new husband to return to Less. Andrew Sean Greer’s Less Is Lost is a touching, hilarious narrative that works both as a follow-up to Greer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Less and as an introduction to an unforgettable character for those who haven’t read about Arthur Less before. Naturally, when news of a sequel to Less was announced, more dismissive shrugging ensued, as though no one remembered acclaimed sequels written by the likes of John Updike, Philip Roth and Hilary Mantel.
After all, the Pulitzer is usually awarded to a novel that's not as much fun to read as Less was.Ī satire of the pretensions of the literary world, Less chronicled the efforts of its hero - the white, gay, American, minor writer, Arthur Less - to outrun his impending 50th birthday and the wedding of his former partner by accepting every invitation to every literary conference, junket, writer's retreat and festival that came his way. Why do we underrate comedy when we need it so badly? When Andrew Sean Greer's novel Less won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 there was a dismissive shrug on the part of some critics.
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