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內容簡介 2018普立茲小說獎！2017紐約時報最受注目作品之一2017華盛頓郵報最佳好書之一2017舊金山紀事報最佳好書之一橫掃各排行榜、美國全國暢銷作品剛被出版商退回書稿的作家亞瑟‧萊斯收到了前男友的結婚喜帖，結婚對象是一個年輕許多的男子。這場婚禮亞瑟去了太奇怪，不去又覺得有點沒面子，因此他挖出信箱中所有的信件，接受了各式各樣、來自各方的邀請，就是不想要待在家。就這樣，他到了巴黎、柏林、摩洛哥、南印度和日本，就是不要留在舊金山。做了許多傻事，類似跌出窗外，西裝被流浪狗啃光、在德國被誤認為德文流利的教授，但卻仍然逃不過此生摯愛已離開他的事實。更慘的是，他即將滿五十歲，代表人生上半正式結束的五十歲，亞瑟說「這就像是你在異國的最後一天，已經知道去哪裡喝咖啡、哪裡吃飯，但你不得不離開，而且不可能再回頭。」《愛情的謎底》作者安德魯‧西恩‧格利爾以這本帶有點幽默的小說回歸文壇，主角亞瑟雖然有點狼狽，卻讓人不得不愛，亞瑟就只是個不知如何面對前男友結婚的男人，除去各種奇怪的遭遇，這本小說就是個純愛故事。NATIONAL BESTSELLER!A New York Times Notable Book of 2017A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award and the California Book Award"I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, Washington Post"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."--Christopher Buckley, New York Times Book ReviewWho 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Andrew Sean GreerAndrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of five works of fiction, including The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel, but he is only big in Italy.

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