His trip to New York City is to escape the sticky situation of whether or not to attend a wedding. Arthur Less (simply called Less) lives in San Francisco. Then the narrator gives readers some backstory about Arthur Less. They arrive at the venue of the event some minutes late and find the writer to be interviewed sick from food poisoning. He begins to ask around and eventually meets the escort. Arthur Less is too wrapped up in his thoughts to notice the frantic efforts of the escort, and the escort is so certain that Arthur Less is a woman that she does not bother to approach Arthur Less.Īrthur Less later snaps out of his reverie when a clock outside the hotel chimes seven times. His appointment is by seven o’clock, so he is relaxed at first as the grandfather clock in the lobby says half past six.Īll the while, the escort, a young Japanese woman who has never seen Arthur Less before and believes he is a woman, is in the lobby asking random people if they are Miss Arthur. The novel begins with a chapter titled ‘’Less At First’’ where we see the protagonist Arthur Less, well dressed and waiting at a hotel lobby for an escort that would take him to the venue of an event where he has to interview a successful science-fiction writer. Warning: This article contains important details and spoilers Chapter One: Less At First Yet, in the end, Less realizes that it is impossible to escape his heart’s yearning even with trots across the globe and a revolution around the sun. Each of those trips has several embarrassing moments and funny mishaps. And from there, he would cross the border of the United States into Mexico City for a literary festival Italy for a prize ceremony Germany to teach a short course France for a little detour Morocco for his fiftieth birthday India for a retreat and Japan to write about the Japanese traditional cuisine. They are invitations he typically would not have accepted but accepts them this time because it would be a plausible reason to decline the wedding invitation with some dignity.Īnd so, weeks before Freddy’s wedding, Less sets off on a journey from San Francisco to New York City to interview a more successful writer. So to avert an awkward situation, he accepts invitations to literary events in several locations across the world. Also, he does not know how to attend the wedding and be the object of everyone’s pity or just decline and come off as defeated. Technically, he is not supposed to feel heartbroken because although they were lovers for nine years, they both agreed that there would be no strings attached, just casual sex and friendship. When his lover of nine years sends him a wedding invitation through the mail, he decides it is better to attend every single obscure literary event he has been invited to than to accept the wedding invitation.Īrthur Less is a forty-nine-year-old writer whose lover Freddy is about to get married to someone else. ‘ Less‘ by Andrew Sean Greer is a comic story of an eponymous protagonist who suffers from anxiety and self-esteem issues which are the main themes in ‘ Less.’ He is a not-so-successful novelist who only gets invited to obscure literary events.
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