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.
Pulitzer Pick“Funny, melancholy, and quietly devastating — Less sneaks up on you and leaves you smiling through tears.”
Running Away and Stumbling Into Yourself
Arthur Less books a string of absurd literary events around the world specifically to avoid attending his ex's wedding, and somehow — in all that bumbling and embarrassment — he finds his way back to joy. Andrew Sean Greer writes with a warmth that sneaks up on you, and by the final pages I was genuinely laughing and a little teary all at once. This is the Pulitzer winner that reads like a best friend's favorite story.
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AI reading intelligence“Funny, melancholy, and quietly devastating — Less sneaks up on you and leaves you smiling through tears.”
Running Away and Stumbling Into Yourself
Arthur Less books a string of absurd literary events around the world specifically to avoid attending his ex's wedding, and somehow — in all that bumbling and embarrassment — he finds his way back to joy. Andrew Sean Greer writes with a warmth that sneaks up on you, and by the final pages I was genuinely laughing and a little teary all at once. This is the Pulitzer winner that reads like a best friend's favorite story.
Book Details
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Published
- January 1, 2017
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
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Ada’s Score
4.4
Ada’s editorial score — not an aggregate of reader reviews.
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.
