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The Bee-Loud Glade (2011)

by Steve Himmer(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0984510583 (ISBN13: 9780984510580)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Atticus Books

review 1: This book will stay with you, and give you plenty to think about. It feels like a French novel to me -- a kind of parable of the human condition, or else the closest thing there is to postmodern pastoral. It has a bracing innocence, a life-affirming earnestness – Finch undertakes a flight from brand promotion towards reality, but only gets some of the way there. A book on becoming “the self I'd always wanted to be without knowing he might exist,” The Bee-Loud Glade is easily read as an allegory of the lot of the writer in contemporary society. There's also a lion in it. A meditative exploration of the pleasures of a marginal existence.
review 2: A fascinating contemporary tale about a cubicle worker that spent the last 10 years of his employment as a "bra... morend recognition director" for an artificial plant company. He spent most of his time creating blogs for imaginary people, when suddenly his job was terminated. That was a start of his new life as a decorative hermit for an eccentric billionaire. It was a fun an amazing tale of discovery of the natural world and slowing down in a modern age when everything is hyper fast and urgent. I really enjoyed the journey and was sad when the book ended. less

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