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Less by Andrew Sean Greer

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How to live alone and yet not be alone?

Title: Less

Author: Andrew Sean Greer

I had high hopes for this book, seeing the various awards the author had accumulated; including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2018) for this particular book, and the raving reviews online. 

It really SHOULD be a great book, but it just doesn't take off. Perhaps it was just the wrong book at the wrong time, or my brain just didn't GET this book. 

Sorry.

Arthur Less is 49 years, NOT 50!, and he sees himself as a failed nobody. To avoid going to the wedding of his former partner of nine years, he sets off on a tour around the world, financing it with speaking opportunities, lectures, awards ceremonies and teaching. 


PS. I did like this quote from the book though: "The key to speaking a new language"... "is to be bold instead of perfect".

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