Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Greer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book. It’s a sweet book, about a sensitive soul on a mission to distract himself from his miseries. Arthur Less is an aging gay writer, whose novels are not show stoppers but who is continuing to try. His lover of nine years has left him to marry another man. He is about to turn fifty. So he escapes on an around the world journey that takes him places like Milan and Paris, Morocco and Mexico, Germany and Japan. It’s a charming book, and a sweet love story. It has humour and grace, and the character of Arthur Less is beautifully observed. There’s tongue in cheek humour, as subtle as it is clever, and lovely, lovely language and metaphor.