Andrew Less is about to turn 50 and his younger lover leaves him to marry another man. Andrew hatches an escape plan which involves accepting every invitation he’s received and proceeds to lecture, teach, and write his way around the world.

It took a little bit to get into this book. There is some odd shifting of narrative voice that I found a little confusing at the end. But this seems like a minor complaint in the face of the poetic comedy of Greer’s writing. Once it got going I was gaffawing every other page, and annoying my family by reading passage after passage aloud.

A good but slightly quirky read. I give it 3.5 👍 out of 5 👍.

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