Is Less Worth Reading?
Ada’s Score
Arthur Less, a middling novelist approaching fifty, flees a painful wedding invitation by accepting every literary engagement he can find around the globe. Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a tender, comic, and achingly human portrait of a gay man confronting love, failure, and the absurdity of self-deception. The novel skips across continents—Mexico, Italy, Germany, Morocco, India—each stop peeling back another layer of Arthur's carefully constructed defenses. It is at once a sharp satire of literary culture and a deeply moving meditation on what it means to love and be loved.
“Funny, melancholy, and quietly devastating — Less sneaks up on you and leaves you smiling through tears.”
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AI reading intelligence“Funny, melancholy, and quietly devastating — Less sneaks up on you and leaves you smiling through tears.”
Book Details
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Published
- January 1, 2017
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
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Ada’s Score Breakdown
4.4
This breakdown reflects how Ada weighs the book’s strengths and flaws, not aggregated reader data.
Common Questions About Less
- Is Less worth reading?
- Funny, melancholy, and quietly devastating — Less sneaks up on you and leaves you smiling through tears. Ada rates it 4.4 out of 5.
- How many pages is Less?
- Less is 280 pages long — around 5–6 hours at an average reading pace.
