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28%OFFBen Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station - 9781847086914 - 9781847086914
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Leaving the Atocha Station

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Description for Leaving the Atocha Station Paperback. Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of a generation Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, every day is a fresh attempt to establish a sense of self and an attitude towards his art. Not helped by his imperfect grasp of Spanish, Adam struggles with the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, even his entire personality are just as ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847086914
SKU
9781847086914
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About Ben Lerner
Born in Kansas in 1979, BEN LERNER is the author of three books of poetry, The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Münster State ... Read more

Reviews for Leaving the Atocha Station
Gales of laughter howl through [this] remarkable first novel. It's packed full of gags and page-long one-liners... intensely and unusually brilliant
Geoff Dyer
Observer
[This book] stood out from everything else I read this year
Catherine O’Flynn, Books of the Year
Observer
The best new novel I've read for a long time
James ... Read more

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