Less is a comedy about a hapless gay author rapidly approaching 50, who, when he is invited to his ex-boyfriend’s wedding, decides to accept every invitation to speak, teach, and attend writer conferences and retreats on his desk. Note: Less is not YA, and contains depictions of sex Buy it here.Trigger warnings: Anti-Asian racism, Medical emergency (Stroke), Age gaps in romantic relationships Traveling north to supposed safety, they see a world that is much like our own will be if climate change goes on unabated. Is it a travel novel if it's our world but set in the future? Perhaps this is a bookend to Yehoshua: a sci-fi classic in which two young siblings flee danger in a future Africa. It certainly seems to have gotten Durrell though his family's sudden move from England to Corfu, where his eccentric siblings and biological obsessions are stranger than anything on the island. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (1956)Ĭharm can get you through anything. You wonder how it could be done any other way. The result is extraordinary and often imitated. The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin (1987)Ĭhatwin, a favorite of mine, despaired of ever finishing this blend of fiction and nonfiction until his editor said, "Show me your notes" and suggested interspersing them with the text. Philosophical, beautifully written, and extraordinarily eye-opening about how the early Christian world was seen as a dangerous alien landscape. In 999 A.D., a Jewish merchant and a learned rabbi sail from North Africa into deepest, darkest France. Yehoshua (1997)Īn adventure novel in which the "travel" is into a world we Westerners think we know well: our own. Journey to the End of the Millennium by A. It's also a hilarious and unsettling portrayal of our sense experiences and how they fool us. More an inner journey than an outer one, this is a fictionalized account of Waugh's own mental collapse on a cruise to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh (1957) Out from under the shadow of his colonial novels and their problems, Greene shines, and shows travel as a mischievous, life-changing event. This is one of Greene's mere "entertainments," as he called his comic novels, but I think it's one of his best books: a life-affirming story of a grumpy old aunt who drags an utterly average man across the world. Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene (1969) Below, Greer names six of his favorite travel novels. Andrew Sean Greer, the author of Less, has followed up that Pulitzer Prize-winning comic novel with Less Is Lost, a sequel that tracks struggling gay novelist Arthur Less on a Southern road trip.
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