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Less is lost greer5/26/2023 Anxiety, as much as anything else, propels his picaresque progress through this road-trip novel. Less accepted that he could survive anything … to hell with doubt and worry.”īut “doubt and worry” can’t be jettisoned for long indeed, they are the pillars of Less’s characterisation. And yet, in those few minutes, as man and moose, they watched the setting sun, and Arthur Less felt chosen … when it left him. “For local detail and colour headed to a hot springs recommended by his lodge … He came upon the springs, peeled off his clothes and settled naked into the pool … very quietly but startlingly … an enormous moose came out of the forest, walked over and sat beside him in the pool … Less urinated freely in pure terror. He recounts one of Arthur’s bizarre interludes early on, in the course of researching a travel piece. Our narrator, Freddy Palu, is Less’s boyfriend. Absurdity and playfulness are the crowd-pleasing hallmarks – and the same is largely true of the follow-up, Less Is Lost. Less bounces from Mexico to Morocco to India, jet-setting in a bid to distract himself from romantic turmoil back home. A ndrew Sean Greer’s Pulitzer-winning 2017 novel Less is a frenetic and often hilarious account of “minor American novelist” Arthur Less navigating zany twists of fate during a series of literary engagements across the globe.
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