![]() ![]() 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. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town? ANSWER: You accept them all. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. You can't say yes-it would be too awkward-and you can't say no-it would look like defeat. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. ![]() Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEĪ San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017 A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" ( The New York Times Book Review). ![]()
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