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The Promise of Elsewhere - Leithauser, Brad
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"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, ...

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The Promise of Elsewhere 2020, Knopf Publishing Group

ISBN-13: 9780525564126

Trade paperback

The Promise of Elsewhere 2019, Knopf Publishing Group

ISBN-13: 9780525655039

Hardcover