A love story, a satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, 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. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nPROBLEM:<br />\r\nYou are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years now engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes--it would all be too awkward--and you can’t say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of half-baked literary invitations you’ve received from around the world.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nQUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?<br />\r\n<br />\r\nANSWER: You accept them all.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nIf you are Arthur Less.