{"product_id":"less-is-lost-9781549112058","title":"Less Is Lost","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the follow-up to the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel  the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America.  Go get lost somewhere  it always does you good.  For Arthur Less  life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner  Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging adventure across the US.  Less roves across the Mild Mild West  through the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace  with an ever-changing posse of writerly characters and his trusty duoa human-like black pug  Dolly  and a rusty camper van nicknamed Rosina. He grows a handlebar mustache  ditches his signature gray suit  and disguises himself in the bolero-and-cowboy-hat costume of a true Unitedstatesian ... with varying levels of success  as he continues to be mistaken for either a Dutchman  the wrong writer  or  worst of all  a bad gay.  We cannot  however  escape ourselveseven across deserts  bayous  and coastlines. From his estranged father and strained relationship with Freddy  to the reckoning he experiences in confronting his privilege  Arthur Less must eventually face his personal demons. With all of the irrepressible wit and musicality that made Less a bestselling  Pulitzer Prize-winning  must-read breakout book  Less Is Lost is a profound and joyous novel about the enigma of life in America  the riddle of love  and the stories we tell along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924188332085,"sku":"ByrdShop_1549112058","price":100.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781549112058.jpg?v=1794130417","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/less-is-lost-9781549112058","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}