书名：Less莱斯2018年普利策小说奖

作者：Andrew Sean Greer 

出版社名称：Abacus 

出版时间：2018 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780349143590 

商品尺寸：12.6 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm 

包装：平装

页数：272（以实物为准）

刚被出版商退回书稿的作家亚瑟·莱斯收到了前男友的结婚喜帖，结婚对象是一个年轻许多的男子。

这场婚礼亚瑟去了太奇怪，不去又觉得有点没面子，因此他挖出信箱中所有的信件，接受了各式各样、来自各方的邀请，就是不想要待在家。

就这样，他到了巴黎、柏林、摩洛哥、南印度和日本，就是不要留在旧金山。

做了许多傻事，类似跌出窗外，西装被流浪狗啃光、在德国被误认为德文流利的教授，但却仍然逃不过此生挚爱已离开他的事实。

更惨的是，他即将满五十岁，代表人生上半正式结束的五十岁，亚瑟说「这就像是你在异国，已经知道去哪里喝咖啡、哪里吃饭，但你不得不离开，而且不可能再回头。」

《爱情的谜底》作者安德鲁·西恩·格利尔以这本带有点幽默的小说回归文坛，主角亚瑟虽然有点狼狈，却让人不得不爱，亚瑟就只是个不知如何面对前男友结婚的男人，除去各种奇怪的遭遇，这本小说就是个纯爱故事。

The Pulitzer prize-winning novel about a failed writer trying to escape his problems by traveling abroad.

Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world.

From France to India, Germany to Japan, Arthur almost falls in love, almost falls to his death, and puts miles between him and the plight he refuses to face. Less is a novel about mishaps, misunderstandings and the depths of the human heart.

Andrew Sean Greeris the bestselling author of five works of fiction, including The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel, but he is only big in Italy.