Description 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.
He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and divides his time between Baltimore and Amherst..
This is his seventeenth book.
About the author BRAD Leithauser is a widely acclaimed poet and novelist and the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Mac Arthur Fellowship. and destined to find love in all the wrong places. . .
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 .
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.
But it turns out that there\'s another sort of architecture there: icebergs the size of cathedrals, bobbing beside a strange and wondrous landscape.
And in the Arctic he finds that turf houses and aluminum sheds don\'t amount to much of an architectural tradition.
He embarks on a doomed romance with a jilted bride celebrating her ruined marriage plans alone in London.
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.
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.
His second marriage is collapsing, and he\'s facing a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis.
Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan.
Description 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
