Less: [a novel]
(CD Unabridged)
Author:
Contributors:
Petkoff, Robert, narrator.
NoveList Series:
Arthur Less novels volume 1.
Published:
[New York] : Hachette Book Group, [2018].
Format:
CD Unabridged
Edition:
Unabridged.
Physical Desc:
7 audio discs (approximately 8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status:
Description
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award
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.
"I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."--Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award
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.
"I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."--Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Last Check-In
Bayfield Audiobooks
AUDIO CD GRE (7discs)
Available
Sep 26, 2023
Subjects
Other Subjects
More Details
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781549118708, 1549118706
Notes
General Note
Subtitle from book and container.
Participants/Performers
Read by Robert Petkoff.
Description
Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape a Saharan sandstorm, and encounter the last person on Earth he wants to face. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
System Details
Compact discs.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Greer, A. S., & Petkoff, R. (2018). Less: [a novel]. Unabridged. [New York], Hachette Book Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Greer, Andrew Sean and Robert, Petkoff. 2018. Less: [a Novel]. [New York], Hachette Book Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Greer, Andrew Sean and Robert, Petkoff, Less: [a Novel]. [New York], Hachette Book Group, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Greer, Andrew Sean. and Robert Petkoff. Less: [a Novel]. Unabridged. [New York], Hachette Book Group, 2018.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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