Our reluctant hero blunders his way into a cascade of disasters, but the more lost Less gets, the closer he is to being found. His scrapes with flooded communes and mistaken identities evoke belly-aching laughter, but along the way, he’s forced to confront hard truths about his estranged father, his strained relationship, and the enigmas of American life. Dogged by financial crisis and the death of his former lover, Less sets out across the American landscape with nothing but a rusty camper van, a somber pug, and a zigzagging itinerary of literary gigs. “I think people resonate with the joy and freedom of the book, despite all of Less’s troubles,” Greer tells Esquire.Įveryone’s favorite Minor American Novelist is back for more in Less Is Lost, a beguiling sequel bursting with just as much absurdity, heartache, and laugh-out-loud exuberance as its predecessor-but this time, it’s all happening stateside. The stratospheric success of Less changed Greer’s life, then did the same for thousands of readers in the years since its release, they’ve flooded his Instagram DMs with touching messages of gratitude. But it was no joke-comic novels, it turns out, are a serious, life-changing business. At first, he thought it was a practical joke comic novels like Less, his rollicking romcom about aging writer Arthur Less and his international misadventures, don’t win Pulitzer Prizes. In 2018, Andrew Sean Greer was changing an incontinent pug’s rhinestoned diaper at a Tuscan writers residency when he learned that he'd won the Pulitzer Prize.
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