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Less	comment	Less is a 2017, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Andrew Sean Greer. It is a story about a writer who is about to turn fifty and receives an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding. To avoid going, he accepts several invitations to literary events around the world, resulting in a story that is by turns funny, sappy, miserable, and lyrical.Less himself (scorchingly described by a poet as being "like a man without skin") serves as both a satire of a somewhat hapless American abroad, and as a deeply relatable figure no matter what one's background is. As the story follows Arthur's journey across the world, he tries to avoid dealing with the heartbreak that sent him on the trip to begin with, and instead deals with the passing of time, the coming and going of love, and what it means to be the fool of your own narrative.A comic, yet moving (and often shamelessly sappy) novel, Less received considerable recognition for the Fitzgerald-adjacent prose and for the surprising power of such a tender, softhearted love story.
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Less / int_1c5f6177	comment	The Twink: Freddy. Arthur when he was a young man (and arguably when he's a middle-aged man, too.)
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Less / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Less / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Robert Brownburn is in his mid-forties when he starts seeing 21-year-old Arthur Less, and Arthur himself is 15 years older than Freddy.
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Less / int_2fa60cdd	type	Kissing Under the Influence
Less / int_2fa60cdd	comment	Kissing Under the Influence: At a party in Paris, Arthur meets a man named Javier, and after several drinks they wind up making out for a while.
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Less / int_36a2827b	type	Tragic AIDS Story
Less / int_36a2827b	comment	This trope is also indirectly deconstructed by Less a few times. Once, he ruminates on the nature of being one of very, very few gay men to survive the AIDS crisis, and part of his Inner Monologue is spent wondering what older gay couples are supposed to do, exactly. As men who survived AIDS, they have no examples of married life in a gay relationship: before the modern day, gay people couldn't live openly, and as they started to gain the right to do so, AIDS killed thousands.
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Less / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
Less / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: Both invoked in the meditation on what it means to be a single, gay man in his late forties, and deconstructed when another author tells Arthur his work hasn't been recognized as part of the "gay canon" because it has too much of this.
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Less / int_4c6f26c	type	Socially Awkward Hero
Less / int_4c6f26c	comment	Socially Awkward Hero: Arthur. He constantly second-guesses himself in almost everything he does (wearing a leather jacket to a Parisian party, commenting on a conversation, not asking Freddy to stay with him), gets tongue-tied easily, and his anxious politeness often gets in the way of his needs.
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Less / int_6a669b5b	type	Lost Wedding Ring
Less / int_6a669b5b	comment	Lost Wedding Ring: Arthur loses his wedding ring in a grocery store, although it happened long before gay marriage was legal, so technically it wasn't a wedding ring.
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Less / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Less / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Lessâ€™s first name, Arthur, sounds a lot like â€œauthor.â€�
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Less / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
Less / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator
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Less / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Less / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Arthur, and he knows it.
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Less / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
Less / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Robert and Arthur, and Robert and his ex-wife.
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Less / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Less / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Arthur has a few pages of minor panic when he learns that his long-term partner's former wife is scheduled to speak at the same event that he is.
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Less / int_bfa56de3	type	Allegorical Character
Less / int_bfa56de3	comment	Allegorical Character: Less is an affectionate pastiche of the typical â€œclumsy Americanâ€� abroad, and serves as the vehicle for the novelâ€™s exploration of this trope. His journey around the world is complicated by recurring travel issues, like abrupt flight changes, language and cultural barriers, and run-ins with border officers.
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Less / int_c8e375d3	type	Lover and Beloved
Less / int_c8e375d3	comment	Lover and Beloved: In the past, Arthur and his lover, the famous poet Robert Brownburn. In the less distant past, Freddy Pelu is this to Arthur.
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Less / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Less / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: Surname as One-Word Title.
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Less / int_d32cd9f5	type	Cast Full of Gay
Less / int_d32cd9f5	comment	Cast Full of Gay: There are dozens of minor characters in Less, but the vast majority of the ones Arthur interacts with in a meaningful way are gay or bisexual.
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Less / int_d4efe0d	type	Character Narrator
Less / int_d4efe0d	comment	Character Narrator: Although it's not clear which character until near the end.
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Less / int_fed441ad	type	All Gays are Promiscuous
Less / int_fed441ad	comment	All Gays are Promiscuous: Present, but justified. While the story does involve many one-night stands and sexcapades, the author goes out of his way to humanize all of the gay men that have more than a sentence's worth of characterization. For example, Bastian is a young Bavarian man that Arthur begins sleeping with while he is in Germany for five weeks. While they both understand that the relationship will end when Arthur moves to the next leg of his trip, there are moments of genuine (and often quiet tender) connection between them. This trope is also indirectly deconstructed by Less a few times. Once, he ruminates on the nature of being one of very, very few gay men to survive the AIDS crisis, and part of his Inner Monologue is spent wondering what older gay couples are supposed to do, exactly. As men who survived AIDS, they have no examples of married life in a gay relationship: before the modern day, gay people couldn't live openly, and as they started to gain the right to do so, AIDS killed thousands.
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