Despite winning the Pulitzer Prize, Andrew Sean Greer’s
Less has many critics. Greer writes well, but the plight of
protagonist Andrew Less is not grave enough to excuse his
self-pity. Greer may have intended to satirize Less, but the novel
isn’t as funny as the book jacket suggests.
Less is about to turn 50, but is 50 old today? His publisher has
rejected his last novel, but Less can revise it. He has been
invited to the wedding of an ex-lover he never encouraged to stay.
To avoid the wedding, Less takes advantage of the kinds of
invitations midlist novelists get to literary events to go on a
round-the-world trip. He returns home to San Francisco and a
surprising happy ending that is more the result of luck than any
enlightenment Less has gained.
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