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050 00 $aPS3562.E4623$bP76 2019
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100 1 $aLeithauser, Brad,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe promise of elsewhere /$cby Brad Leithauser.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2019.
264 4 $c©2019
300 $a330 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In this comic novel, our hero, Midwesterner Louie Hake, tries to prop up the failing prospects of happiness in his career and marriage by setting out abroad on what he calls his Journey of a Lifetime. Louie is 43, teaches architecture at a third-rate college in Michigan, and faced with a collapsing second marriage and a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis, he decides to undertake a high-minded tour of the world's most spectacular architecture sites: Italy, Turkey, India, Japan. But Louie gets waylaid--ludicrously, spectacularly so. After a stab at a new romance with a jilted bride alone on her honeymoon in London, he somehow winds up in the high Arctic, where the architectural tradition seems sad and laughable. (Turf houses? Corrugated aluminum sheds?) But it turns out there's another sort of architecture at play here--ice bergs the size of cathedrals--bobbing beside a strange and wondrous landscape. As it slowly grows clear, Louie's Grand Journey is a trip through his much-bungled romantic past. Whether pursuing by email his estranged present wife (co-habiting with a sexy playwright in the Virgin Islands), or his first wife (newly engaged to someone else), or an older woman he kissed once a quarter-century ago, Louie is both ridiculous and touching. A novel that is both funny and moving, a serious look into the Midwestern soul in crisis"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aArchitecture$xStudy and teaching$vFiction.
650 0 $aCollege teachers$vFiction.
650 0 $aMidlife crisis$vFiction.
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650 7 $aFICTION / Humorous / General.$2bisacsh
655 4 $aLove stories.
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