Less

Arthur Less is a minor San Francisco novelist, remembered mainly for his long affair with a celebrated older writer, and his publisher has just turned down his latest book. The man he lived with for nine years is about to marry someone else; Less can bear neither to attend nor to be seen hiding at home. His answer is to say yes to every second-rate literary invitation lying on his desk and to travel the world: Mexico, Italy, Paris, Berlin, the Moroccan desert, a retreat in southern India, Japan. Mishap follows mishap, the fiftieth birthday comes ever closer, and no distance lets him outrun the knowledge that the man he loved is gone. An unnamed narrator, whose identity is kept back, tells his story.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Love, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Mexico, Italy, France, Germany, Morocco, India, Japan

First published

2017

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9780316316125 (Lee Boudreaux Books, United States)

9780316316132 (Little, Brown and Company, United States)

9780349143590 (Sceptre, United Kingdom)

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