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.
發表於2024-12-22
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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...
評分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...
評分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...
評分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...
評分小說很迷人,作傢的生活更迷人,這是我之前說過的。理所當然的,一本寫作傢生活的小說也很有意思。 許多要做的事情來不及做,沒有興趣做,被其他紛繁的事情打擾忘記做,這我之前說過,但現在深有體會,花花世界,迷亂人眼,倒不是說哪件事情更有意義,而是感受到瞭自己的有限而...
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完全不解這部小說是憑藉什麼獲瞭普利策奬的。除瞭零星乍現的幾個高亮點,全書都很無聊,忍著讀完。陳述者一直在說男主人公很天真,雖然已五十歲,但沒有任何章節斷落是描述他如何天真的。最不能容忍的,就是靠一個陳述句刻畫人物,我要的是,描述。我要證據,我不要作者丟給我一個結論。男主人公,行將五十歲,一個沒什麼名氣的三流作傢,被相處瞭很多年的小男友拋棄,被人提到時的標簽永遠是某著名詩人曾經的戀人,在收到前男友的結婚請柬後,決定環遊世界。法國,德國,意大利,摩洛哥,印度,日本。在旅程中,沒什麼事情發生,他的旅程實在是太枯燥乏味瞭。少有關於他情緒的描寫,作者沒有提供給讀者可與之主人公發生情緒共鳴的通道。讀著關於他的故事,卻如同一個旁觀者,看著與自己擦肩而過的路人,你對他一無所知。作者的講述,太糟糕瞭。
評分好像從來沒讀過comic novel? 比喻太有意思瞭,聽有聲書的時候能笑齣聲來。“From where I sit, the story of Arthur Less is not so bad.” 作者的度掌握得很好,自嘲也很到位. Who would feel sorry for an almost-fifty white gay man travelling around the world just to escape ex-lover’s wedding? 當Less到瞭京都坐在川端康成最愛的房間裏吃懷石料理的時候,我幾乎打算討厭他瞭。一個永遠天真沒有盔甲又笨拙的人真的就會獲得更多偏愛麼?這個世界大概是不太公平的,也能有人suffer with a reward…
評分I love this book!
評分基佬版eat pray love. 結尾那句精華從看到書名就期待著齣現瞭,但可能是因為過程太過繁瑣,稍顯無力。
評分太會比喻瞭,能把我無法描述的感官錶達得淋灕盡緻,每每都想大喊“就是這個感受!”也經常被冷幽默笑齣聲,非常享受。沙漠裏的夜談讓我想念西藏的銀河,想念那時候你帶來的驚喜。Less被鎖在日本年代感的酒店花園迴想起母親和童年突然哭齣來那段,離奇的異域宗教浸入感,離奇得悲傷,”from somewhere high above, I began a plummeting descent”,就是這個感受。
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