![]() ![]() Less, Sean Greer’s alter ego, felt he had to get out of town. It had been a blissful time, until Freddy blindsided him with the news that he was leaving to marry another man. But soon enough Less was in love again, almost by accident this time with the much younger Freddy Pelu, whom he had been with now for nine years. When Brownburn eventually left a decade and a half later, after both of them had gotten sloppy, Less was convinced the possibility of having a long-term love relationship ever again had passed him by. Smitten, Less did as he was told, but not without resentment. Less had adored Brownburn, a very difficult man who expected Less to run their household smoothly so Brownburn could give his full attention to his writing. He moved in with Brownburn shortly afterwards when his wife left. Less had given the first 15 years of his young adult life to the famous imperial poet, Robert Brownburn, whom he had met accidentally on a San Francisco beach. ![]() ![]() ‘Less’ told us about how Arthur Less, then in his mid-thirties, was still reeling from his first ex-lover’s exodus years ago. Despite societal gains, it’s still a relatively new thing. ![]() Greer shows chutzpah in writing about a gay love affair as if it were meant to last forever. He calls it, appropriately, ‘Less is Lost.’ The story picks up several years after we left Arthur Less and his lover Freddy Pelu on the brink of reuniting after a tumultuous separation. Pulitzer-Prize winning Andrew Sean Greer has written an engrossing must-read sequel to his Pulitzer-Prize winning work ‘Less’. ![]()
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