# The Promise of Elsewhere

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- Book: [The Promise of Elsewhere](https://www.bookquiver.com/brad-leithauser/the-promise-of-elsewhere) ([The Promise of Elsewhere.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/brad-leithauser/the-promise-of-elsewhere.md))
- Authors: [Brad Leithauser](https://www.bookquiver.com/brad-leithauser)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-05-2556-412-6
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2020-02-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## 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. Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history...