About
WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS?
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world.
From France to India, Germany to Japan, Arthur almost falls in love, almost falls to his death, and puts miles between him and the plight he refuses to face. Less is a novel about mishaps, misunderstandings and the depths of the human heart.
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world.
From France to India, Germany to Japan, Arthur almost falls in love, almost falls to his death, and puts miles between him and the plight he refuses to face. Less is a novel about mishaps, misunderstandings and the depths of the human heart.
Publication
Lee Boudreaux Books (2017), Edition: 1, 273 pages
Series
Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2018)
Pulitzer Prize (Winner — Fiction — 2018)
Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards (Finalist — Fiction — 2018)
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Longlist — Fiction — 2018)
Australian Book Industry Awards (Shortlist — 2019)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Fiction & Poetry — 2017)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Fiction — 2017)
Notable Books List (Fiction — 2018)
ALA Over the Rainbow Book List (Selection — Literary and General Interest — 2019)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Fiction — 2017)
Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List (Selection — 2019)