{"product_id":"9780316316132","title":"Less (Pulitzer Prize Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e Top Ten Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"I could not love LESS more.\"—Ron Charles, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Andrew Sean Greer's\u003ci\u003e Less\u003c\/i\u003e is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.\"-\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003eChristopher Buckley\u003ci\u003e, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQUESTION\u003c\/b\u003e: How do you arrange to skip town?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANSWER\u003c\/b\u003e: You accept them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat would possibly go wrong? \u003c\/i\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 fifty. 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, \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e has hailed as \"inspired, lyrical,\" \"elegiac,\" \"ingenious,\" as well as \"too sappy by half,\" \u003ci\u003eLess \u003c\/i\u003eshows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024537272560,"sku":"9780316316132","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316316132_p0.jpg?v=1772804573","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316316132","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}