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The Everything Book Club, EVENING ZOOM

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

A live, lively librarian-led book club discussion about a wide range of titles and genres. Register here for EVENING ZOOM or on Tuesday, May 20, for DAYTIME IN PERSON! Registration required.

ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB

If you like everything bagels, you'll probably like The Everything Book Club. We read the best of fiction and non-fiction, literary novels, mysteries, historical fiction, memoirs and more.

We generally meet on the third week of the month at two convenient times and venues:  Evening Zoom on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Daytime in Person at 1 p.m. in the Tower Room on the 2nd floor in the cold weather. Registration is required.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid attending his boyfriend's wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Click on the links to order the book in print, eBook or eAudiobook on Libby/OverDrive. You can also ask for a copy at the circulation desk in the Main Branch.

"Who says you can’t run away from your problems? You are a [not very successful] novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes–it would be too awkward–and you can’t say no–it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.

QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?

ANSWER: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last."

“'Less' is excellent company. It’s no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.”—Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of six works of fiction, including the bestsellers "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," "Less" and "Less Is Lost." Greer has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, been a TODAY show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He lives in San Francisco.

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