{"product_id":"less-9780316316125","title":"Less","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of arresting lyricism and beauty (\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e Top Ten Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWho 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.\u003cb\u003eQUESTION\u003c\/b\u003e: How do you arrange to skip town?\u003cb\u003eANSWER\u003c\/b\u003e: You accept them all.\u003ci\u003eWhat would possibly go wrong? \u003c\/i\u003eArthur 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, \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e has hailed as inspired, lyrical, elegiac, ingenious, as well as too sappy by half, \u003ci\u003eLess \u003c\/i\u003eshows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eI could not love LESS more.--Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Sean Greer's\u003ci\u003e Less\u003c\/i\u003e is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.-\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003eChristopher Buckley\u003ci\u003e, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greer, Andrew Sean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Boudreaux Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316316125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Andrew Sean Greer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39867238252619,"sku":"9780316316125","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_b794e55f-5cd4-45d8-97be-f6ab6444d6c4.jpg?v=1664370260","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/less-9780316316125","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}