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2024-04-27
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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...
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...
圖書標籤: 普利策 小說 LGBT Pulitzer 英文原版 英文 黑色幽默 美國
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I love this book!
評分後麵四分之一有點無聊,尤其是印度部分
評分A gay Odyssey. An attribute to Proust. A love story crafted with polyphony narrative. Beautiful language and lovely to read but is it too readable to be a prize winner?
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。
Less 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載