![]() ![]() Your narrator, Less’ partner Freddy Pelu, is a person of color. The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel Andrew Sean Greer Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 274 pp., $23 ![]() (He splits his time between California and Milan, where his partner, Enrico, lives with their dog, Quo.) “I learned that after you win one of these big awards, you need a year for all the events and engagements,” says Greer, speaking over videoconference from his San Francisco apartment. With “Less,” however, came genuine fame, the kind that alters lives forever. But his real breakout - before the Pulitzer - was “ The Story of a Marriage,” about a woman who receives a fateful visit from her husband’s wartime friend. ![]() His first novel, “The Path of Minor Planets,” garnered strong reviews when it was released in 2001, as did “The Confessions of Max Tivoli” (2004, inspired by Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages”). ![]() And second, “Less” covers all the joys and discontents of travel, and so does Greer’s new follow-up novel, “ Less Is Lost.” First, Greer won the 2018 Pulitzer for “Less,” his comic novel about a hapless author named Arthur Less who has all of Greer’s worst characteristics - and none of his best. The best part, aside from the fact that it was on the Amalfi Coast, was that I was seated next to the novelist Andrew Sean Greer, who was tall, handsome, funny and gracious. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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