“What a joy to be reunited with the beloved, hapless, utterly delightful Arthur Less. Vulnerable and witty, ‘Less is Lost’ is a joy.”- CATHY PARK HONG, author of Minor Feelings It was a thrill to go on this odyssey with Less where even the most picayune comic encounters turn profound.
“Excited to be reunited with our neurotic hero Arthur Less, I ripped through this sequel. Put all of that on a wild road trip through a wilder America, and you end up with something hilarious, affecting, and unforgettable.” - MARLON JAMES, winner of the 2015 Booker Prize And while he runs from himself, finds himself at the same time. “Only Arthur Less could be both frustratingly stuck, yet on the move. I loved reading it.”― MADELINE MILLER, bestselling author of CIRCE Greer is a brilliant storyteller as always, and the joyfulness of this book is a balm. "It is a deep pleasure to return to the adventures of Arthur Less and his beloved Freddy. It sometimes hurts to read it."― DAVID SEDARIS, author of Happy-Go-Lucky This book, though, is wildly, painfully, funny. Less’s generation often feels like the first to explore the land beyond fifty."Does Andrew Greer think of himself as a comic novelist? Does a giraffe think of itself as a giraffe? Probably it doesn’t matter. He met them all at forty or so but never saw them make it much beyond they died of AIDS, that generation. He has never seen another gay man age past fifty, none except Robert.
How dreadful if someone came upon naked Less today: pink to his middle, gray to his scalp, like those old double erasers for pencil and ink. Here, in this tub, he should be twenty-five or thirty, a beautiful young man naked in a bathtub. That is, at least, how he feels at times like these. “Arthur Less is the first homosexual ever to grow old.
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