{"product_id":"2940170033232","title":"Less: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho says you can't run away from your problems?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are a failed novelist about to turn 50. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: Your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes amp;ndash; it would be too awkward amp;ndash; and you can't say no amp;ndash; it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestion: How do you arrange to skip town?\u003cbr\u003eAnswer: You accept them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat would possibly go wrong?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur 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 50. Through it all there is his first love. And there is his last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings, and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e has hailed as \"inspired, lyrical\", \"elegiac\", and \"ingenious\" as well as \"too sappy by half\", \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Hachette Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098189709552,"sku":"2940170033232","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170033232_p0.jpg?v=1763699473","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170033232","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}