· THE FACADES. by Eric Lundgren ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 12, When a mezzo-soprano star of the local opera disappears, her worrywart husband must explore the depths of a bizarre and labyrinthine city for clues to her whereabouts. Some debut manuscripts are . · Eric Lundgren—a Midwestern librarian who, with the arrival of The Facades, has brought his first book into stacks and carrels—might understand my plight. Throughout this novel, slim in length but intricate in architecture, Lundgren deposits readers into a world of loss and mourning. · by Eric Lundgren Welcome to Trude, a decaying city in the Midwest whose motto is “We Tried” and where it is easier to get a driver’s license than a library card. THE FACADES, which functions as an inadvertent tour guide to the city as seen by one of its more hapless residents (more on that in a moment), is not a long book, clocking in at just over pages, but it’s a deep one.
Facades, by Eric Lundgren, is just that rare enigma of a novel. The book takes place in Trude, a city constructed by the radical—and quite possibly mad—architect, Klaus Bernard. Now long dead, the architect's mind-bending landmarks have become the strange setting for a war between art and politics. In the opening chapter of Eric Lundgren's début novel, "The Facades" (Overlook), the narrator, Sven Norberg, enters a police station in the fictional Midwestern city of Trude. We are The Facades: A Novel|Eric Lundgren living in the digital age, when people completely depend on written information: texting, messaging, media posts - if something is not written The Facades: A Novel|Eric Lundgren online, it's like it does not exist. However used to writing modern-day people might be, the necessity to write a full-fledged letter switches their stress mode on because.
It will be one of Norberg’s few personal victories in Eric Lundgren’s debut novel, The Facades, a lush and enigmatic book which finds that strange existential pressure point where cosmic and personal tragedy meet, and presses down on it hard. By Eric Lundgren. Overlook Duckworth, $ The fictional Midwestern city of Trude, the setting of the dazzlingly creative debut novel from Eric Lundgren, has seen better days. Eric Lundgren—a Midwestern librarian who, with the arrival of The Facades, has brought his first book into stacks and carrels—might understand my plight. Throughout this novel, slim in length but intricate in architecture, Lundgren deposits readers into a world of loss and mourning.
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