The Facades - Rilegato

Eric Lundgren

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ISBN 10: 0715647679 ISBN 13: 9780715647677

Casa editrice: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2014

Riassunto

The Facades is one of the most remarkable and talked-about debut novels in recent memory. Set in the once-great Midwestern city of Trude a treacherous maze of convoluted shopping malls, barricaded libraries and elitist assisted-living homes Eric Lundgren s novel follows a disconsolate legal clerk named Sven Norberg, who sets out to investigate the disappearance of his wife, the city s most celebrated mezzo-soprano. To track her down, he must descend into Trude s underworld and confront the menacing and bizarre citizens of his hometown. rebellious librarians, shifty music critics and the minister of an apocalyptic church who has recruited Norberg s teenage son. Written with boundless intelligence and razor-sharp wit, The Facades is a comic and existential mystery that unfolds at the urgent pace of a thriller.

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The Facades challenges your sense of the world you think you know and live in. It is a dazzling invention --Kathryn Davis, author of Duplex and The Thin Place

Lundgren writes like a veteran in his prime, and The Facades is simply one of the best novels Ive read in years, period --Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine and Kapitoil

Eric Lundgren has written exactly the kind of book I hope to stumble on, to be seized by, to be astonished by, to marvel at --Arthur Phillips, author of The Tragedy of Arthur and Prague

L'autore

Eric Lundgren grew up in Minneapolis. He studied at Lewis & Clark College and earned his MFA at Washington University, where he was awarded a third-year fellowship. The Facades is his first novel. He works at a public library in St. Louis, where he lives with his wife Eleanor and their two cats.

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• Editore: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0715647679
• ISBN 13: 9780715647677
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272