What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. QUESTION : How do you arrange to skip town? On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. You can’t say yes–it would be too awkward–and you can’t say no–it would look like defeat. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. Who says you can’t run away from your problems?
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