The Promise Of Elsewhere A Novel Leithauser Brad by Leithauser, Brad 9780525655039, 0525655034 instant download after payment.

**A comic novel about a Midwestern professor who tries to prop up his failing
prospects for happiness by setting out on the Journey of a Lifetime.**
Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history at a third-rate
college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing a
potentially disastrous medical diagnosis. In an attempt to fend off what has
become a soul-crushing existential crisis, he decides to treat himself to a
tour of the world's most breathtaking architectural sites. Perhaps not
surprisingly, Louie gets waylaid on his very first stop in Rome--ludicrously,
spectacularly so--and fails to reach most of his other destinations. He
embarks on a doomed romance with a jilted bride celebrating her ruined
marriage plans alone in London. And in the Arctic he finds that turf houses
and aluminum sheds don't amount to much of an architectural tradition. But it
turns out that there's another sort of architecture there: icebergs the size
of cathedrals, bobbing beside a strange and wondrous landscape. It soon
becomes clear that Louie's grand journey is less about where his wanderings
have taken him and more about where his past encounters with romance have not.
Whether pursuing his first wife, or his estranged current wife, or the older
woman he kissed just once a quarter-century ago, Louie reveals himself to be
endearing, deeply touching, wonderfully ridiculous . . . and destined to find
love in all the wrong places.
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