Departure Lounge A Novel
Departure Lounge A Novel by Robert Laurence, published by Sunstone Press in 2012, is a literary fiction work that spans 482 pages. Set in the mid-Eighties, a time marked by the absence of modern communication tools, the narrative follows Michael Reid as he embarks on a series of obsessive travels across various regions, including Scandinavia, the Persian Gulf, and Eastern Europe. Throughout his journey, Michael writes letters to three friends—Anna, Richard, and Marie—each of whom has a distinct relationship with him, yet remains unaware of one another.
Readers will find that the story intricately weaves together the lives of Michael and his friends against the backdrop of his travels. The letters serve as a medium for exploring their thoughts and experiences, revealing how their lives become interconnected in unexpected ways. The novel captures a sense of exploration and introspection, highlighting themes of connection and disconnection in a world that was simpler yet more isolating.
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The mid-Eighties. No cell phones, no email, no caller ID, no GPS. It was easier then to pass without notice, to be out of touch, to get lost. The Berlin Wall still stood, as did the World Trade Center, and Michael Reid embarks on what even he concedes to be a spate of obsessive travel: Scandinavia, the Persian Gulf, South Asia, back home to the Ozarks, then off again to Greece, Eastern Europe and Egypt. Along the way, he writes letters about what he’s seeing and what he’s thinking to three friends: Anna Browning, a mathematician in Tallahassee, who thinks of Michael less fondly than he thinks of her; Richard Randolph, Michael’s baseball-watching pal, who leads a comfortable-perhaps too comfortable-life as a law professor in Albuquerque; and Marie Cochran, a middle-school social studies teacher in rural New Mexico, who is Michael’s on-again-off-again lover. These three all know Michael, but they don’t know each other. And, against the background of Michael’s travels and his letters, their lives become curiously, even mysteriously, intertwined, changed in ways that Michael himself can’t imagine.
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