{"product_id":"less-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize","title":"Less","description":"A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of \"arresting lyricism and beauty\" (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 \"I could not love LESS more.\"--Ron Charles, Washington Post \"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.\"--Christopher Buckley, New York Times Book Review 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.","brand":"Landmark Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42405040718064,"sku":"9780316316132","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/1385\/8477\/products\/content_24b1bb7d-8954-4f3d-971f-3b8209622d31.jpg?v=1644434563","url":"https:\/\/landmark-booksellers.myshopify.com\/products\/less-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize","provider":"Landmark Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}