But as an audio book it can be confusing. And there is his last.īecause despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings, and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.Ī 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', and '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.Įndearing, funny, but sometimes overly cleverĮssentially a love story this novel has some sweet moments. Question: How do you arrange to skip town?Īrthur 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. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. You can't say yes - it would be too awkward - and you can't say no - it would look like defeat.

A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: Your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You are a failed novelist about to turn 50. Who says you can't run away from your problems? A breakout romantic comedy by the best-selling author of five critically acclaimed novels.

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