10:04: A Novel
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
A stunning, urgent, and original novel from Ben Lerner (The Topeka School and Leaving the Atocha Station) about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.
Winner of The Paris Review's 2012 Terry Southern Prize
A Finalist for the 2014 Folio Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his own mortality and the prospect of fatherhood in a city that might soon be underwater.
A writer whose work Jonathan Franzen has called "hilarious . . . cracklingly intelligent . . . and original in every sentence," Lerner captures what it's like to be alive now when the difficulty of imagining a future is changing our relationship to both the present and the past.
Named One of the Best Books of the Year By:
The New Yorker The New York Times Book Review The Wall Street Journal The Village Voice The Boston Globe NPR Vanity Fair The Guardian (London) The L Magazine The Times Literary Supplement (London) The Globe and Mail (Toronto) The Huffington Post Gawker Flavorwire San Francisco Chronicle The Kansas City Star The Jewish Daily Forward Tin House
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Wander through this poetic work of metafiction, framed by Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, as a nameless narrator faces personal and creative upheaval. A stand-in for the author, he struggles to complete a novel, confronts a serious new medical diagnosis, and navigates complicated relationships with a mercurial artist lover and a close friend who wants his help conceiving a child. We loved how the story drifts across New York City, the remote art oasis of Marfa, Texas, and the narrator’s own philosophical reflections. It’s an associative, nonlinear experience that pulls you in. 10:04 may not take the most direct route, but these interconnected vignettes form a compelling portrait of an artist on the brink of his next transformation.
