6/1/2023 0 Comments Novel less is lostHow can a book be so funny and so sad at the same time? Dare I say it, I enjoyed this much more than the original, maybe because it enriches that initial reading experience so much. What if it sucked, like how Aciman bombed with Find Me? And did that perfect first book really need an add-on? Then I hit a patch of quite heavy reading and needed a bit of a break, so I decided to find out what Arthur had been up to in the interim. While I read the book well before it received this accolade, I put off reading the follow-up for as long as possible. When Andrew Sean Greer won the Pulitzer Prize for Less, it raised the eyebrows of literary pundits everywhere about the value and craft of comedy writing. You could say, at least, that Less is lost. You could say he is having the time of his life. Arthur Less might perish by coyote, or from thirst, or from exposure to the elements he might even face the blunt barrel of a pistol and escape with the joy of knowing he has stolen another day from Death and sleep well.
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