With his latest novel, “Less Is Lost,” Greer channels Don Quixote and contemplates middle age.
“I’ve always found that my greatest inspiration comes from utter failure,’’ Andrew Sean Greer avows, with disarming modesty.
“I’m very proud of those books, but their lack of success meant some of my foreign publishers dropped me,’’ he recalled. “I was suddenly in a position where I thought, “Well, it doesn’t matter — I’m going to write whatever I want.’’“Less’’ is the story of a failed middle-aged author, Arthur Less, who embarks on an international voyage to Paris, Berlin, Morocco and a desert island in the Arabian Sea to avoid the pain of attending the Wine Country wedding of his former boyfriend.
Less’ adventures include donning a Hoot and Holler T-shirt, cowboy hat and bolo tie and buying miniature American flags to stick on the side of his van for his road trip. He also includes a wicked sendup of literary gamesmanship when Less is accused of being a “bad gay’’ by the chair of a squabbling prize jury he has been asked to join.
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