Best of the Best Book Club: "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer

Join Coronado Public Library's newest book club, the Best of the Best! We will meet regularly on the 4th Tuesday of each month to discuss books that have won major awards. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering below. Registration is not required. 

In February we will be discussing the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Less by Andrew Sean Greer. You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty.  A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years now engaged to someone else.  You can’t say yes--it would all be too awkward--and you can’t say no--it would look like defeat.  On your desk are a series of half-baked literary invitations you’ve received from around the world.  

QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?

ANSWER: You accept them all.  

If you are Arthur Less.

Thus begins an around-the-world-in-eighty-days fantasia that will take Arthur Less to Mexico, Italy, Germany, Morocco, India and Japan and put thousands of miles between him and the problems he refuses to face.  What could possibly go wrong? A love story, a satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, by an author The New York Times has hailed as “inspired, lyrical,” “elegiac,” “ingenious,” as well as “too sappy by half,” Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy. (Bookshop.org)

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