The Underhill Men's Literary Society

What the gentlemen have been reading


Cover of Less

Presented by Matt at the July 2024 meeting

Less

  • Published 2017
  • Fiction
  • 280 pages
5.0
one reader
  • Matt5

In brief

Pulitzer-winning send-up of a semi-successful gay writer who runs but can't hide from his ex's wedding.

From the publisher

Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.

via Open Library

From Wikipedia

Less is a 2017 satirical novel by American author Andrew Sean Greer. The plot follows writer Arthur Less as he travels the world on a literary tour to numb his loss of the man he loves.

The novel won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The sequel Less Is Lost was published in 2022.

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