Andrew Sean Greer is 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 y el 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. A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in Less: A Novel (Lee Boudreaux Books), his hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of “arresting lyricism and beauty,” according to The New York Times Book Review. Who says you can’t run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as “inspired, lyrical,” “elegiac,” “ingenious,” as well as “too sappy by half,” Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.