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Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books, 2)

Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books, 2)

Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books, 2)
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Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books, 2)

de Greer, Andrew Sean

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0316498904
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9780316498906
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UsedGood. Cover has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CD's, and other accessories may not be included.

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El Dec 15 2022, un lector dijo:
Less Is Lost is the sequel to Pulitzer-winning novel, Less. It's when Less and Freddy have been together nine months, our favourite Minor American Novelist has completed his first novel and is on his way to give a lecture when two calls derail his day: his agent has lined up a paying gig he doesn't want to take; and a long-time rival for certain affections brings sad news. The sad news includes a funeral, and notification of a huge debt that Less naively never anticipated. Homelessness is on the horizon.

During all this, Freddy is in Maine, on a course, and receiving detailed daily calls that allow him to chronicle for the reader this upheaval in his partner's (and his) life. Less decides to throw himself into the gigs he flatly rejected earlier, to cover the debt and save his beloved Shack on the Vulcan Steps: interview and profile sci-fi author, H.H.H. Mandern; part of a jury for a literary prize; a personal appearance with the theatre troupe performing one of his short stories, and anything else that comes up.

Mandern, however, throws a wrinkle into his ambitious plans, and Less finds he has inexplicably agreed to drive the author from Pams Springs to Santa Fe in an antique converted live-in van called Rosina, accompanied by a sleek black pug called Dolly. It's not until they are well underway that Mandern reveals their mission.

Even more surprised is he to be driving Rosina further across the country, with Dolly as his faithful companion, and the daunting prospect of reconnecting with someone from his past looming. Mandern tells him: "You may not know it, Arthur Less, but you're full of adventure. You're a reckless man."

Greer's protagonist might remind some readers of those that David Nicholls creates: inept, accident-prone, awkward, sometimes graceless, and his ineptitude is often a source of humour: his woeful German language skills, his rogue moustache razor, blueberries that aren't, an unintentional flood, a donkey ride, becoming an RVer, surviving a hurricane.

Indeed, Less bumbles his way through encounters with communes, Navajo guides, beertenders, propositioning campers, and his alter-ego. He regularly makes a fool of himself, yet things seem to fall into place for him somehow. Freddy expands quite a bit on what the reader already knows about him, Less and Robert Brownburn, making it hard not to fall even harder for this middle-aged gay white novelist. Greer's plot, characters and prose are entertaining and enjoyable and more of this cast will be most welcome.

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Título
Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books, 2)
Autor
Greer, Andrew Sean
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ISBN 10
0316498904
ISBN 13
9780316498906

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