{"product_id":"less","title":"Less","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\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\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eQUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eANSWER: You accept them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eWhat would possibly go wrong? Arthur 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\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eBecause, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor: Andrew Sean Greer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 272\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 8.3 in H | 5.6 in W | 1 in T\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn sale date: May 22, 2018\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Little, Brown and Company\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43893129773270,"sku":"9780316316132","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/6649\/7238\/products\/Less.jpg?v=1671328252","url":"https:\/\/telegraphhillbooks.com\/products\/less","provider":"Telegraph Hill Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}