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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018

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By: Andrew Sean Greer
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world.

From France to India, Germany to Japan, Arthur almost falls in love, almost falls to his death, and puts miles between him and the plight he refuses to face. Less is a novel about mishaps, misunderstandings and the depths of the human heart.

2018, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Winner

2019, Australian Book Industry Awards International Book of the Year, Long-listed

©2017 Andrew Sean Greer (P)2017 Little, Brown Book Group Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Heartfelt

Critic Reviews

"Bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful." (New York Times)

"You will sob little tears of joy." (Nell Zink)

"A fast and rocketing read...a wonderful, wonderful book!" (Karen Joy Fowler)
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Much has been said about 'Less' - so I will only add to it by saying that the narration was brilliant. I felt like I was in a play or watching a movie so perfectly were the characters given life and realised. Despite myself I found my heart going out to Less and despite myself developed a stake in his life and hope for the outcome. I loved it!

Narrator and novel wonderful

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I loved this book, so well written it sneaks up on you how good it is. Got me right where it hurts - the heart.

Arthur Less is a good gay after all...

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A great story, empathy ❤️ and comedy abound. A nice narrative twist at the end as well

Excellent audio performance and story 👏

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Everything, every moment, every word of this book is so beautifully crafted. The narration by Robert Petkoff couldn’t be more perfect. Day after day I would stop reading and quietly reflect on this exquisite work. Usually a greedy reader, I took my time and soaked in every emotional glorious moment.

My Book Of The Year

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I admired and enjoyed this book immensely, a take on middle age that’s a funny, sunny, California, gay (and much shorter) version of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle”. What prompted me to write the review, however, is the absolutely brilliant reading by Robert Petkoff, in particular his mastery of a range of accents, including mixed accents and, almost miraculously, differing versions of one of the secondary characters, one of them middle-aged and the other stroke-afflicted and elderly. Bravo!

A great book read absolutely brilliantly

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