
After a layover in Paris where he meets an old friend, Arthur travels to Morocco to celebrate his 50th birthday in the Sahara. He later accepts a teaching offer for a creative writing seminar in Berlin. In Turin, Arthur attends an award ceremony where, to his surprise, he wins. Mandern, and then to Mexico City for a conference about Robert. He first travels to New York City to interview writer H.H.H. In attempt to avoid the wedding, Arthur goes on an extensive overseas trip after accepting invitations to the numerous literary engagements which he typically declines. Arthur, who is dreading his 50th birthday, is suddenly invited to the wedding of his ex-sweetheart, Freddy Pelu.

His most recent novel, Swift, has recently been rejected by his publisher. He first experienced moderate success with his debut novel, but in the decades since has struggled to garner the same success. Plot Īrthur Less is a 49-year-old gay writer of middling success from San Francisco, known primarily for having once been in a relationship with an older gentleman, Robert Brownburn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. The sequel Less Is Lost was published in 2022. The novel won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The plot follows writer Arthur Less as he travels the world on a literary tour to numb his loss of the man he loves.

Less is a 2017 satirical comedy novel by American author Andrew Sean Greer.
