Who 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.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
What 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.
Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.
A 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.
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读后感
I really like the tone of this novel. On the one hand, It was told in a direct and detailed way that as a reader, I could depict the scense with flesh in my mind. On the other hand, despite the closeness, all the emotions in the story are still slightly det...
评分赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都，体验了日本的怀石料理，中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中，莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年，那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘，...
评分小说很迷人，作家的生活更迷人，这是我之前说过的。理所当然的，一本写作家生活的小说也很有意思。 许多要做的事情来不及做，没有兴趣做，被其他纷繁的事情打扰忘记做，这我之前说过，但现在深有体会，花花世界，迷乱人眼，倒不是说哪件事情更有意义，而是感受到了自己的有限而...
评分I really like the tone of this novel. On the one hand, It was told in a direct and detailed way that as a reader, I could depict the scense with flesh in my mind. On the other hand, despite the closeness, all the emotions in the story are still slightly det...
评分小说很迷人，作家的生活更迷人，这是我之前说过的。理所当然的，一本写作家生活的小说也很有意思。 许多要做的事情来不及做，没有兴趣做，被其他纷繁的事情打扰忘记做，这我之前说过，但现在深有体会，花花世界，迷乱人眼，倒不是说哪件事情更有意义，而是感受到了自己的有限而...
用户评价
很有意思的故事，小人物的失意和挣扎，作者文笔不错，非常逗乐，结尾绝对是惊喜，happy ending
评分2018普利策奖？
评分When that final sentence appeared, I was like Arthur Less after five years of reading In Search of Lost Time, deprived of the joy of savoring the last few paragraphs. The book carries an interesting form, natural humor and great depth. Mesmerized by the true beauty of that kiss, & forever grateful for that unexpected light, at home, awaiting him.
评分完全不解这部小说是凭借什么获了普利策奖的。除了零星乍现的几个高亮点，全书都很无聊，忍着读完。陈述者一直在说男主人公很天真，虽然已五十岁，但没有任何章节断落是描述他如何天真的。最不能容忍的，就是靠一个陈述句刻画人物，我要的是，描述。我要证据，我不要作者丢给我一个结论。男主人公，行将五十岁，一个没什么名气的三流作家，被相处了很多年的小男友抛弃，被人提到时的标签永远是某著名诗人曾经的恋人，在收到前男友的结婚请柬后，决定环游世界。法国，德国，意大利，摩洛哥，印度，日本。在旅程中，没什么事情发生，他的旅程实在是太枯燥乏味了。少有关于他情绪的描写，作者没有提供给读者可与之主人公发生情绪共鸣的通道。读着关于他的故事，却如同一个旁观者，看着与自己擦肩而过的路人，你对他一无所知。作者的讲述，太糟糕了。
评分真的有点无聊，除了男主很帅，艳遇很多，没了
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