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Andrew Sean Greer · 2017
A mediocre gay novelist travels the world to avoid his ex's wedding. Greer's comic novel is a formally accomplished farce with few equals in recent American fiction. Its lightness is its seriousness; its lightness is what lets it say true things.
The case against
A comic travelogue about a privileged novelist's wounded vanity is asking lightness to carry a lot. Each country is a set piece, charming and interchangeable, and the stakes never rise above embarrassment. The narrator reveal at the end resolves everything with a romantic-comedy bow that the wandering middle hasn't quite earned.
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