![]() ![]() The Pulitzer judges praised “Less” as “a generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and the essential nature of love.” ![]() “The tragicomic business of being alive,” he says, “is getting to him.” The novel centers on a struggling San Francisco author - Arthur Less - who, nearing age 50, decides to tour the world to escape himself. In her review for The Chronicle, Carmela Ciuraru called it “philosophical, poignant, funny and wise, filled with unexpected turns.” The Chronicle named “Less” one of the top 10 books of 2017. The pug showed no sense she was impressed by me at all.” And what did I do first thing the morning after I heard the news? Take the pajamas off the dog. Greer concluded: “And for a lesson in humility: what was I doing just before I heard the news? Coaxing a pug dog into polka-dot pajamas for the night. “I guess I get to meet Kendrick Lamar?” he added, referring to the rapper who won the Pulitzer Prize for music. Greer had just found out he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel “Less.” ![]()
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