Greer said he reflected part of himself in the protagonist of ‘ Less’ -a middle-aged white American gay. He claims the idea to change the novel’s tone from serious to comic came to him while swimming. Andrew Sean Greer won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel ‘ Less.’ Greer said he had started writing ‘ Less’ as a serious novel about being gay and aging but had changed his initial plans and decided that the best way to write about such a serious theme was to make it something to laugh about. The story of ‘Less’ is Andrew Sean Greer’s sixth book and fifth novel. Climax: Arthur’s return to the Vulcan Steps.Setting: The year 2015 in several locations across the world.Point of View: Alternates between third-person omniscient and first-person narration.‘Less’ by Andrew Sean Greer is a comic novel about a quirky novelist who decides to take up obscure literary gigs across the world in a bid to escape the awkward position of being present at the wedding of his lover to another.
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