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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.
后面四分之一有点无聊,尤其是印度部分
评分太会比喻了,能把我无法描述的感官表达得淋漓尽致,每每都想大喊“就是这个感受!”也经常被冷幽默笑出声,非常享受。沙漠里的夜谈让我想念西藏的银河,想念那时候你带来的惊喜。Less被锁在日本年代感的酒店花园回想起母亲和童年突然哭出来那段,离奇的异域宗教浸入感,离奇得悲伤,”from somewhere high above, I began a plummeting descent”,就是这个感受。
评分So many great quotes, and such flowery language. ????
评分Happy ending有点没意思,并且读到一半就被剧透了。文字很好笑,哭笑不得的那种????,又透着迷之忧郁。讲到三十年前老情人快要离世了那段有点触动的,但总体来说还是感觉一部young adult romance而已,可能五十岁男主人公的innocence刻画太深刻???
评分I love this book!
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...
Less pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024