Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

Leaving the Atocha Station



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Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 9781566892742
Format: pdf
Page: 186


Blogging the Bookshelf header image 2. The best novel I've read in the last couple of years was Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner, and I wish I could write like him. Shani Boianjiu, for The People of Forever Are Not Afraid; Ben Lerner, for Leaving the Atocha Station; Stuart Nadler, for The Book of Life; Asaf Schurr, for Motti (trans. I came to Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station via the bandwagon. Leaving the Atocha Station, de ongrijpbare debuutroman van de Amerikaanse dichter Ben Lerner (1979) was voor Jonathan Franzen het beste boek van 2011. AVE high speed train leaving Madrid Atocha station May 2013. €�Leaving the Atocha Station” is, centrally, about communication and translation, about what can be truthfully expressed, not just in a foreign tongue but in one's native language. Leaving the Atocha Station is the first novel of poet turned novelist Ben Lerner. I admit I had to look this word up when I first encountered it in Lerner's fine first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station. Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station has been chosen as one of 5 finalists for the New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award! Book: Leaving the Atocha Station (Powell's) (Amazon) (Kindle) (Because I know you guys will jump on this when you see the glowing review Amy gave it, heh, heh. Published June 4th, 2013 at 10:55 am in Bullet Train, High Speed Train with no comments. Todd Hasak-Lowy); Francesca Segal, for The Innocents. The book marks Lerner's transition from poetry to prose. Ben Lerner's first novel, coming on the heels of three outstanding poetry collections, is a darkly hilarious examination of just how self-conscious, miserable, and absurd one man can be. In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle. Talks to Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga; Julian Barnes and Mario Vargas Llosa discuss Madame Bovary; and Catherine Bush asks Ben Lerner about his recent novel, Leaving the Atocha Station. €�Leaving the Atocha Station” (2011, 181 pgs) by Ben Lerner. The hero of LAS, Adam Gordon, is fond of pot, lying, women who dislike him, poetry, and, mostly, himself.





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