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2024-11-21
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趕在六一讀完瞭Less。最後萊斯去的城市是京都,體驗瞭日本的懷石料理,中途得知瞭舊愛Robert中風住院。Robert算是見證Less從青年到中年的全過程。在他眼中,萊斯還是當年海灘上見過的二十一歲少年,那個錯將多倫多當做加拿大首都的少年。人人都說年輕時遇到的愛戀最讓人難忘,...
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...
評分趕在六一讀完瞭Less。最後萊斯去的城市是京都,體驗瞭日本的懷石料理,中途得知瞭舊愛Robert中風住院。Robert算是見證Less從青年到中年的全過程。在他眼中,萊斯還是當年海灘上見過的二十一歲少年,那個錯將多倫多當做加拿大首都的少年。人人都說年輕時遇到的愛戀最讓人難忘,...
評分趕在六一讀完瞭Less。最後萊斯去的城市是京都,體驗瞭日本的懷石料理,中途得知瞭舊愛Robert中風住院。Robert算是見證Less從青年到中年的全過程。在他眼中,萊斯還是當年海灘上見過的二十一歲少年,那個錯將多倫多當做加拿大首都的少年。人人都說年輕時遇到的愛戀最讓人難忘,...
評分趕在六一讀完瞭Less。最後萊斯去的城市是京都,體驗瞭日本的懷石料理,中途得知瞭舊愛Robert中風住院。Robert算是見證Less從青年到中年的全過程。在他眼中,萊斯還是當年海灘上見過的二十一歲少年,那個錯將多倫多當做加拿大首都的少年。人人都說年輕時遇到的愛戀最讓人難忘,...
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真的有點無聊,除瞭男主很帥,艷遇很多,沒瞭
評分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I love this book!
評分真的有點無聊,除瞭男主很帥,艷遇很多,沒瞭
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?
Less 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載