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The Promise of Elsewhere audiobook
- By: Brad Leithauser
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Category: Fiction, Humorous
- Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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The Promise of Elsewhere Audiobook Summary
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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The Promise of Elsewhere Full Details
| Narrator | George Newbern |
| Length | 5 hours 18 minutes |
| Author | Brad Leithauser |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781984840530 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Promise of Elsewhere is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: satire, travel gift ideas, american literature, teacher gifts, fiction psychological, humorous books, contemporary fiction, literary fiction, satire fiction, books fiction, new york times bestsellers, comedy, love, art, romance, funny gifts, magic, philosophy, family, mystery, death, thriller, fantasy, time travel, psychology, drama, classic, obsession, friendship, marriage, short stories, modern, novels, funny books, ghosts, chick lit, fiction, coming of age, quirky, England, humor, fiction books, humor books, humorous books for women, Fiction, Humorous, Fiction, Psychological, Fiction, Visionary & Metaphysical The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Humorous
Additional info
The publisher of the The Promise of Elsewhere is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781984840530.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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