'Less' offers more in Andrew Sean Greer's follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning novel
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The question you may well be asking at this point is: Is Less Is Lost as good, as funny, as poignant as its predecessor?The death here of Less' first love, the famous poet Robert Brownburn, only deepens Less's uncertainty, since it turns out that Less owes a decade of back rent on the San Francisco bungalow he's been living in that was owned by Brownburn.But comedy also arises out of pain and Greer smoothly transitions into the profound, such as in this rumination by Less about the empty encounter he has on the trip with his long-lost father: The moment holds neither disappointment nor delight.
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