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    "description": "<p>'Greer is a brilliant storyteller as always, and the joyfulness of this book is a balm. I loved reading it' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of <em>Circe</em><br /><br /><br />For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging adventure across the US.<br /><br />Less roves across the 'Mild Mild West', through the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace, with an ever-changing posse of writerly characters and his trusty duo - a human-like black pug, Dolly, and a rusty camper van nicknamed Rosina. He grows a handlebar mustache, ditches his signature gray suit, and disguises himself in the bolero-and-cowboy-hat costume of a true 'Unitedstatesian'... with varying levels of success, as he continues to be mistaken for either a Dutchman, the wrong writer, or, worst of all, a 'bad gay' ...<br /><br /><em>Less Is Lost</em> is a profound and joyous novel about the enigma of life in America, the riddle of love, and the stories we tell along the way.<br /><br /><br />Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of six works of fiction, including the bestsellers <em>The Confessions of Max Tivoli </em>and <em>Less</em>. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for <em>Less</em>. He lives in San Francisco and Milan.</p>",
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