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Andrew Sean Greer (born November 21, 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. Greer received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Less. He is the author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an "inspired, lyrical novel", and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award. Biography Andrew Sean Greer was born in November 1970, in Washington, D.C., the child of two scientists. He grew up in Rockville, Maryland. He is an identical twin. He graduated from Georgetown Day School, and Brown University, where he studied with Robert Coover and Edmund White, and served as commencement speaker. He lives part-time in Italy. He is the author of six works of fiction. Greer taught at Freie Universität Berlin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori for a work translated into Italian, as well as a Today Show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, an NEA Fellow, and a judge for the National Book Award. Work Greer's stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and other national publications. They have been anthologized in The Book of Other People and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009. His third book, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, was released in 2004; a New Yorker piece by John Updike called it "enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov." Mitch Albom chose The Confessions of Max Tivoli for the Today Show Book Club and it soon became a bestseller. The story of a man aging backwards, it was inspired by the Bob Dylan song "My Back Pages." It is similar in theme to the Fitzgerald short story and the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Greer's fourth book The Story of a Marriage was published in 2008. The New York Times said of it: "Mr. Greer seamlessly choreographs an intricate narrative that speaks authentically to the longings and desires of his characters. All the while he never strays from the convincing and steady voice of Pearlie." The Washington Post called it "thoughtful, complex and exquisitely written." The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells was published in June 2013. His novel Less was published in 2017 and received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A follow-up, Less is Lost, was published in 2022 and debuted on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Awards and prizes Northern California Book Award California Book Award New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library O. Henry Award for the short story "Darkness" Fernanda Pivano Award 2014 for American Literature in Italy Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018 for his novel Less PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award 2018 for Less Bibliography Novels The Path of Minor Planets: A Novel (2001) ISBN 9780312275563 The Confessions of Max Tivoli (2004) ISBN 978-0-312-42381-0 The Story of a Marriage (2008) ISBN 978-0-312-42828-0 The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (2013) ISBN 978-0-062-21378-5 Less: A Novel (2017) ISBN 9780316316125 Less Is Lost (2022) ISBN 9780316498906 Short fiction Collections How It Was for Me (short stories) (2000) ISBN 978-0-312-24126-1 Stories References External links Andrew Sean Greer website. Discover the Andrew Sean Greer popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Andrew Sean Greer books.
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Cat Country
Lao SheWhen a traveller from China crashlands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local catman, he becomes acquainted with all aspects...
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The Brown Reader
Judy Sternlight“To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come…that was what going to Brown felt like.” Jeffrey EugenidesIn celebration of Brown University’s...
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The Helicopters Are Down
Indira Parthasarathy & Andy SundaresanHurtling towards a midlife crisis, Amirtham is down but not out. Caught in a sorry vortex of selfdenial and whatcouldhavebeen, the discontented government official wants to do the...
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Hark
Sam LipsyteAn “extremely funny...brilliantly alive” (The New York Times Book Review) social satire of the highest order from bestselling author Sam Lipsyte, centered around an unwitting mindf...
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Geschichte einer Ehe
Andrew Sean Greer»Wir glauben, die zu kennen, die wir lieben.« Ein Roman über das Geheimnis eines Lebens und die erschütternde Zärtlichkeit der Liebe.San Francisco: Draußen am Strand glaubt sich Ho...
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Riots I Have Known
Ryan ChapmanLonglisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ryan Chapman’s “gritty, bracing debut” (Esquire) set during a prison riot is “dark, daring, and laughoutloud hilarious...
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The Last Romeo
Justin MyersPreorder the new sharp, hilarious Justin Myers novel, LEADING MAN, now!'If you liked Bridget Jones's Diary, try this' BBC NewsJames is 34 and fed up. His sixyear relationship with ...
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Going Dutch
James GregorONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S 10 BEST DEBUT NOVELS OF THE YEAR“A charming, wellobserved debut,” (NPR) featuring a gay male graduate student who falls for his brilliant female class...
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People in Trouble
Sarah Schulman'A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago' Olivia Laing First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle in...
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Mouth to Mouth
Antoine WilsonONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) Finalist for CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Pop...
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Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe
Evan JamesNamed one of 2019’s most anticipated reads by Entertainment Weekly, “a hilarious and witty joy of a novel about a family’s insanely dramatic summer at their new island home” (Cosmo...
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New Cardiff
Charles WebbAs a discerning reader of nineteenthcentury American fiction, Englishman Colin Ware is familiar with the tradition of transcending disastrous love affairs by booking the next ocean...
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The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
Emme LundLonglisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize“A modern comingofage full of love, desperation, heartache, and magic” (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author...
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The Time of Mute Swans
Ece TemelkuranAnkara, the capital city in the heart of Turkey at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, East and West, is a hotspot in the Cold War, torn between communism and conservatism, Western ...
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Leave Myself Behind
Bart Yates“Noah’s voice is more than just honest or original; it’s real.” The Plain DealerTHE WORLD ACCORDING TO NOAH YORK:“Anybody who tells you he doesn’t have mixed feelings about his mot...
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Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
Paul Rudnick“A case study in elegant, honest tragicomedy…by the genuinely hilarious Paul Rudnick” (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author) that follows the decadeslong, rulebreakin...