Emma Beddington

Back on the road: Less is Lost, by Andrew Sean Greer, reviewed

The hapless protagonist of Greer’s prizewinning novel, Less, is now touring America’s heartlands in an unexpected flurry of paid work

Andrew Sean Greer, photographed in San Francisco in 2018. [Getty Images] 
issue 17 September 2022

Get ready for more of Less: Andrew Sean Greer’s hapless novelist is back on the road. First things first: you need to have read Less, Greer’s Pulitzer-winning first outing for his creation, to appreciate this slighter but equally charming sequel. That’s no hardship. Less was hilarious and humane: a hymn to second acts.

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