The Bee-Loud Glade, a novel by Steve Himmer

Meet Finch, a corporate drone and blogger who creates imaginary lives, but none as surreal as the life he's about to lead as a decorative hermit.

Meet Mr. Crane, an eccentric billionaire whose whims change as often as the landscape outside his employee's cave.

Meet them both in THE BEE-LOUD GLADE, a postmodern pastoral about the nature of nature and the nature of work, and the limits of solitude in a networked world. Coming from Atticus Books in April 2011.

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"An allegorical novel that seems eerily contemporary. Thoreau meets Ballard, meets Huysmans and many more." — Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder and C


"With The Bee-Loud Glade, Steve Himmer has written a hypnotic and heartfelt debut novel, interweaving naturalistic beauty and postmodern complexity within this compulsively readable parable... unambiguously ingenious and very clearly announces a shining new talent." — Frederick Reiken, author of Day For Night, The Lost Legends of New Jersey, and The Odd Sea

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