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.
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I really like the tone of this novel. On the one hand, It was told in a direct and detailed way that as a reader, I could depict the scense with flesh in my mind. On the other hand, despite the closeness, all the emotions in the story are still slightly det...
评分赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都，体验了日本的怀石料理，中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中，莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年，那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘，...
评分赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都，体验了日本的怀石料理，中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中，莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年，那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘，...
评分小说很迷人，作家的生活更迷人，这是我之前说过的。理所当然的，一本写作家生活的小说也很有意思。 许多要做的事情来不及做，没有兴趣做，被其他纷繁的事情打扰忘记做，这我之前说过，但现在深有体会，花花世界，迷乱人眼，倒不是说哪件事情更有意义，而是感受到了自己的有限而...
评分赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都，体验了日本的怀石料理，中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中，莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年，那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘，...
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A gay Odyssey. An attribute to Proust. A love story crafted with polyphony narrative. Beautiful language and lovely to read but is it too readable to be a prize winner?
评分A gay Odyssey. An attribute to Proust. A love story crafted with polyphony narrative. Beautiful language and lovely to read but is it too readable to be a prize winner?
评分what was the Pulitzer committee thinking?
评分真的有点无聊，除了男主很帅，艳遇很多，没了
评分作者的文笔真的是我读过的有限的英语文学里最能引起共鸣之一了 故事情节相对轻松简单 整个阅读体验还是很愉悦的
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