“Arthur Less’s life with Robert ended around the time he finished reading Proust. It was one of the grandest and most dismaying experiences in Less’s life – Marcel Proust, that is – and the three thousand pages of In Search of Lost Time took him five committed summers to finish.”

“Arthur Less’s life with Robert ended around the time he finished reading Proust. It was one of the grandest and most dismaying experiences in Less’s life – Marcel Proust, that is – and the three thousand pages of In Search of Lost Time took him five committed summers to finish.”

— Andrew Sean Greer