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The Facades (2013)

by Eric Lundgren(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1468306871 (ISBN13: 9781468306873)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Overlook Hardcover

review 1: A satirical mystery that is every bit as effete and dissolute as its self-pitying narrator. Riffs on surreal architecture, opera, and urban decay don't seem to be preoccupied by much more than their own cleverness. As with Auster, the mystery merely provides the mood and backdrop for what should be a deeper existential rumination, but any deeper reading will probably wind up being fairly arbitrary, taking the riffs on thematic material and pushing them farther than Lundgren cared to.
review 2: After reading this book, I still have no real idea what it was about and it really felt like a complete and utter mind screw. I think the book was narrated by a man that was looking for his wife and the fallout of her disappearance, but at the end it delved into what app... moreeared to be something else entirely. There was talks of hidden codes and cyphers, a call back to a probable lesbian liason in college, and then a sharp turn by his son into religion. It seemed like a lot of stuff was thrown in here, and to me none of it worked very well together. less

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