Or Arthur Less, the dejected middle-aged novelist and main protagonist of Less (2017), who lives in a small house on the Vulcan Steps, which are carved into a hill between San Francisco's Castro and the Haight. Or the title character of The Confessions of Max Tivoli (2003), who ages backwards over his lifetime between 18, shyly obsessed with the young woman who lives in the flat below him in the rundown neighbourhood of South Park, after his once-wealthy family moved here from well-to-do Nob Hill. Pearlie Cook, the narrator of Greer's third novel, The Story of a Marriage (2008), lives in the flat, cookie-cutter neighbourhood of Outer Sunset in the San Francisco of 1953, tip-toeing around her strikingly handsome husband Holland, who is addled by post-traumatic stress disorder, until her perception of him is tested by the arrival of a mysterious blond man, and a $100,000 offer that curls the reader's toes. Andrew Sean Greer: “It was important for me for Arthur as a queer character in Less to be given a happy ending, because I’d long wanted to read that book and I couldn’t find it.” Credit: Getty Images
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