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AdamGordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on aprestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self andhis relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated bylanguage, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential artform, or merely a screen for the reader’s projections? Instead of following thedictates of his fellowship, Adam’s “research” becomes a meditation on thepossibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships withthe people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witnessto the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate inhistoric events or merely watch them pass him by? Inprose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and theinspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as ayoung man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.
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Summary
Summary
Finalist for the 2011 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Prize for First Fiction
Finalist for the 2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
One of Newsweek's Top 100 Books in 2011
A 2011 Boston Globe Book of the Year for Fiction
A 2011 Guardian Best Book of the Year for Fiction
AdamGordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on aprestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self andhis relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated bylanguage, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential artform, or merely a screen for the reader’s projections? Instead of following thedictates of his fellowship, Adam’s “research” becomes a meditation on thepossibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships withthe people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witnessto the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate inhistoric events or merely watch them pass him by?
Inprose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and theinspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as ayoung man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.
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Author Bio: Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner, born in Topeka, Kansas, is an acclaimed author and a professor of English at Brooklyn College. His novel The Topeka School was named a best book of the year by Time, Esquire, Vogue, Vulture, and many other major publications. His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, won the 2012 Believer Book Award, and excerpts from 10:04 have been awarded the Paris Review‘s Terry Southern Prize. He has published three poetry collections: Mean Free Path, The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, Howard, and MacArthur Foundations.
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 5.67 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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