Less Is Lost
Book description
In the follow-up to the “bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful” (New York Times) best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America.
“Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.”
For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well:…
Why read it?
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This is not as good as the brilliant Less, for which Greer had won the Pulitzer, but it is nevertheless a riveting, bitter-sweet ramble through the aging, gay, mildly successful novelist Arthur Less’ affairs and absurdities, foibles, and fears.
Writing about the middle-aged heterosexual man and his loves and losses has never been an easy task: only a few writers, like the underrated Italo Svevo, have managed to carry it off. But writing about a middle-aged homosexual man’s loves and losses is probably even more difficult: after all, a sizeable chunk of readers are heterosexual.
Greer managed it so…
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