Andrew Sean Greer, "Less"

Andrew Sean Greer discusses his novel, "Less", at Politics and Prose on 6/5/18.

Winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Greer’s wry and engaging fifth novel, now available in paperback, tells the bittersweet story of Arthur Less. A mid-list novelist facing a midlife crisis, Less turns fifty just as his younger ex-boyfriend is about to get married. To avoid facing the wedding, Less embarks on an extended literary tour. As he travels from San Francisco to New York, Mexico, Italy, Germany, France, India, and Japan, Less looks back over his life. His many flashbacks take him from his early promise as a writer loosely associated with the Russian River School to the books and relationships that have charted his lifelong search for love and meaning. Greer is in conversation with Ron Charles, Washington Post book critic.

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Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of five works of fiction, including The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel, but he is only big in Italy.

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