But even those who think that the award should have gone to Lincoln in the Bardo would have to admit that Less unquestionably was a worthy winner of the award. So was the 2018-Pulitzer-Prize committee having a bit of fun awarding its annual literature prize to a novel extolling a fictive-Pulitzer-Prize winner? Perhaps. It defines Arthur to as great an extent as it defines Bwornburn. This casts a shadow over Arthur as an inescapable cloak of another person’s fame. By then, he had lived with the famous poet Robert Brownburn.” Irony of ironies, Brownburn, a member of the by-then-almost-extinct collective of Russian River artists, is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Soon after beginning the story, we learn during a flashback that “Arthur Less did not publish until he was in his thirties. He is a mid-list author waiting to hear word from his publisher-hopefully word of a significant advance for his latest novel Swift. When we meet Arthur Less, the protagonist in Andrew Sean Greer’s fifth novel, he is almost fifty. Less, a Novel, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize
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