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Less

a Novel
May 18, 2019EljayJohnson rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is the coming-of-middle-age story of Arthur Less, middling novelist, "bad gay," and lovelorn single man. His one-true-love is marrying another after he pushed him away, so Less embarks on a world tour to miss the wedding and spend his 50th birthday alone. Less is gentle, smart, often hapless, and on a mission to become More. This dreamy, ruminative novel succeeds as a character study and a travelogue. The writing is lovely and sly and observant. And Less/Greer believe in the virtue of happiness and the possibility of love; balms in the stress of a reader's real life. My gratitude for the perfect ending.