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Less by Andrew Sean Greer



Love at the core is a test of your patience and emotions. It starts when you stop focusing on "Me" and start seeing a future in "We". For some people, "the blessed ones", it comes as easy as breathing. For some others, "the unfortunate ones", its found and then lost for never to be found again. And for those "the confused ones" among us, its gone only to make us realize what we really want in life. This book is story of that journey of our beloved protagonist to find out what he really wants. He is a failed novelist who is going to turn 50 in a month, has invitation to wedding of his "love of life" to someone else and he has to figure out his life before he crosses that big 50 threshold.

Quotes from the book

“Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young. Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won't ever be back.”

"How can so many things become a bore by middle age — philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods — but heartbreak keeps its sting?”

“Boredom is the only real tragedy for a writer; everything else is material.”

“The time when any couple has found its balance, and passion has quieted from its early scream, but gratitude is still abundant; what no one realizes are the golden years.”

Goodreads rating for the book can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39927096-less

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