{"product_id":"book-c6ki","title":"Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of \"arresting lyricism and beauty\" (\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e Top Ten Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\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.\u003cb\u003eQUESTION\u003c\/b\u003e: How do you arrange to skip town?\u003cb\u003eANSWER\u003c\/b\u003e: You accept them all.\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.Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e is, above all, a love story.A 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\u003cb\u003e\"I could not love LESS more.\"-Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\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, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49349466390832,"sku":"BDc6ki","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49349466423600,"sku":"40c6ki","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/c6ki-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776234628","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c6ki","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}