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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2011
- ISBN
- 9781566892742
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Coffee House Press
ISBN-10
1566892740
ISBN-13
9781566892742
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109076045
Product Key Features
Book Title
Leaving the Atocha Station
Number of Pages
186 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Coming of Age, Literary, Political
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-024105
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"[A] noteworthy debut . . . . Lerner has fun with the interplay between the unreliable spoken word and subtleties in speech and body language, capturing the struggle of a young artist unsure of the meaning or value of his art. . . . Lerner succeeds in drawing out the problems inherent in art, expectation, and communication. And his Adam is a complex creation, relatable but unreliable, humorous but sad, at once a young man adrift and an artist intensely invested in his surroundings."-- Publishers Weekly "Utterly charming. Lerner's self-hating, lying, overmedicated, brilliant fool of a hero is a memorable character, and his voice speaks with a music distinctly and hilariously all his own." -- Paul Auster "An extraordinary novel about the intersections of art and reality in contemporary life." -- John Ashbery "Ben Lerner incisively explores the way our own obsessive critical thinking can make us feel that our role in the world is falsified, unreal, and inauthentic, even as, without knowing it, we're slowly growing into our future skin. Leaving the Atocha Station is a deft and meticulous reading of the development of an artist." -- Brian Evenson, Leaving the Atocha Station is a marvelous novel, not least because of the magical way that it reverses the postmodernist spell, transmuting a fraudulent figure into a fully dimensional and compelling character."— The Wall Street Journal [A] noteworthy debut . . . . Lerner has fun with the interplay between the unreliable spoken word and subtleties in speech and body language, capturing the struggle of a young artist unsure of the meaning or value of his art. . . . Lerner succeeds in drawing out the problems inherent in art, expectation, and communication. And his Adam is a complex creation, relatable but unreliable, humorous but sad, at once a young man adrift and an artist intensely invested in his surroundings."— Publishers Weekly 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. . . . Lerner's writing [is] beautiful, funny, and revelatory."— Deb Olin Unferth, Bookforum A hilarious and insightful account of an artist's development in the digital age."— Electric Literature The first novel from Ben Lerner, a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, explores with humor and depth what everyone assumes is OK to overlook. . . . Ben Lerner's phrases meander, unconcerned tourists, taking exotic day trips to surprising clauses before returning to their familiar hostels of subject and predicate. . . . [A]n honest, exciting account of what it's like to be a fairly regular guy in fairly regular circumstances . . . [and] somehow it's more incredible, and more modern a dilemma, than the explosives."— Minneapolis Star Tribune I admire Ben's poetry, but I love to death his new book, Leaving the Atocha Station . Ben Lerner's novel . . . ‘chronicles the endemic disease of our time: the difficulty of feeling. . .' [A] significant book."— David Shields , Los Angeles Review of Books In his adroitly interiorized first novel . . . Lerner makes this tale of a nervous young artist abroad profoundly evocative by using his protagonist's difficulties with Spanish, fear of creativity, and mental instability to cleverly, seductively, and hilariously investigate the nature of language and storytelling, veracity and fraud. As Adam's private fears are dwarfed by terrorist train attacks, Lerner casts light on how we must constantly rework the narrative of our lives to survive and flourish."— Donna Seaman, Booklist " Leaving the Atocha Station is, among other things, a character-driven ‘page-turner' and a concisely definitive study of the actual" versus the ‘virtual' as applied to relationships, language, poetry, experience. It's funny and affecting and as meticulous and knowing" in its execution of itself, I feel, as Ben's poetry collections are."— Tao Lin, The Believer Perhaps it's because there's so much skepticism surrounding the novel-by-poet that, when it's successful, it's such a cause for celebration. Some prime examples of monumental novels by poets and about poets (but not just for poets) are Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives, and Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Now, let us celebrate another of their rank: Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station. "— The Jewish Daily Forward "Utterly charming. Lerner's self-hating, lying, overmedicated, brilliant fool of a hero is a memorable character, and his voice speaks with a music distinctly and hilariously all his own." — Paul Auster "An extraordinary novel about the intersections of art and reality in contemporary life." — John Ashbery "Ben Lerner incisively explores the way our own obsessive critical thinking can make us feel that our role in the world is falsified, unreal, and inauthentic, even as, without knowing it, we''re slowly growing into our future skin. Leaving the Atocha Station is a deft and meticulous reading of the development of an artist." — Brian Evenson, [A] noteworthy debut . . . . Lerner has fun with the interplay between the unreliable spoken word and subtleties in speech and body language, capturing the struggle of a young artist unsure of the meaning or value of his art. . . . Lerner succeeds in drawing out the problems inherent in art, expectation, and communication. And his Adam is a complex creation, relatable but unreliable, humorous but sad, at once a young man adrift and an artist intensely invested in his surroundings."— Publishers Weekly A hilarious and insightful account of an artist's development in the digital age."— Electric Literature I admire Ben's poetry, but I love to death his new book, Leaving the Atocha Station . Ben Lerner's novel . . . ‘chronicles the endemic disease of our time: the difficulty of feeling. . .' [A] significant book."— David Shields , Los Angeles Review of Books "One of the Top 10 of 2011. . . . [ Leaving the Atocha Station ] is remarkable for its ability to be simultaneously warm, ruminative, heart-breaking, and funny."— Shelf Unbound " Leaving the Atocha Station is, among other things, a character-driven ‘page-turner' and a concisely definitive study of the actual" versus the ‘virtual' as applied to relationships, language, poetry, experience. It's funny and affecting and as meticulous and knowing" in its execution of itself, I feel, as Ben's poetry collections are."— The Believer "Lerner's novel is timely and relevant and, most importantly, a damn good book."— Hey Small Press "Utterly charming. Lerner's self-hating, lying, overmedicated, brilliant fool of a hero is a memorable character, and his voice speaks with a music distinctly and hilariously all his own." — Paul Auster "An extraordinary novel about the intersections of art and reality in contemporary life." — John Ashbery "Ben Lerner incisively explores the way our own obsessive critical thinking can make us feel that our role in the world is falsified, unreal, and inauthentic, even as, without knowing it, we're slowly growing into our future skin. Leaving the Atocha Station is a deft and meticulous reading of the development of an artist." — Brian Evenson, Adam should be insufferable company, but Mr. Lerner, whose previous books are poetry collections, writes so candidly and exquisitely about Adam's falseness that the character comes to seem lovably errant. . . . Leaving the Atocha Station is a marvelous novel, not least because of the magical way that it reverses the postmodernist spell, transmuting a fraudulent figure into a fully dimensional and compelling character."— The Wall Street Journal [A] noteworthy debut . . . . Lerner has fun with the interplay between the unreliable spoken word and subtleties in speech and body language, capturing the struggle of a young artist unsure of the meaning or value of his art. . . . Lerner succeeds in drawing out the problems inherent in art, expectation, and communication. And his Adam is a complex creation, relatable but unreliable, humorous but sad, at once a young man adrift and an artist intensely invested in his surroundings."— Publishers Weekly 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. . . . Lerner's writing [is] beautiful, funny, and revelatory."— Deb Olin Unferth, Bookforum A hilarious and insightful account of an artist's development in the digital age."— Electric Literature The first novel from Ben Lerner, a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, explores with humor and depth what everyone assumes is OK to overlook. . . . Ben Lerner's phrases meander, unconcerned tourists, taking exotic day trips to surprising clauses before returning to their familiar hostels of subject and predicate. . . . [A]n honest, exciting account of what it's like to be a fairly regular guy in fairly regular circumstances . . . [and] somehow it's more incredible, and more modern a dilemma, than the explosives."— Minneapolis Star Tribune I admire Ben's poetry, but I love to death his new book, Leaving the Atocha Station . Ben Lerner's novel . . . ‘chronicles the endemic disease of our time: the difficulty of feeling. . .' [A] significant book."— David Shields , Los Angeles Review of Books In his adroitly interiorized first novel . . . Lerner makes this tale of a nervous young artist abroad profoundly evocative by using his protagonist's difficulties with Spanish, fear of creativity, and mental instability to cleverly, seductively, and hilariously investigate the nature of language and storytelling, veracity and fraud. As Adam's private fears are dwarfed by terrorist train attacks, Lerner casts light on how we must constantly rework the narrative of our lives to survive and flourish."— Donna Seaman, Booklist " Leaving the Atocha Station is, among other things, a character-driven ‘page-turner' and a concisely definitive study of the actual" versus the ‘virtual' as applied to relationships, language, poetry, experience. It's funny and affecting and as meticulous and knowing" in its execution of itself, I feel, as Ben's poetry collections are."— Tao Lin, The Believer "Utterly charming. Lerner's self-hating, lying, overmedicated, brilliant fool of a hero is a memorable character, and his voice speaks with a music distinctly and hilariously all his own." — Paul Auster "An extraordinary novel about the intersections of art and reality in contemporary life." — John Ashbery "Ben Lerner incisively explores the way our own obsessive critical thinking can make us feel that our role in the world is falsified, unreal, and inauthentic, even as, without knowing it, we''re slowly growing into our future skin. Leaving the Atocha Station is a deft and meticulous reading of the development of an artist." — Brian Evenson
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? 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. Born in Topeka, 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 and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel., From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the angst of the young American abroad., Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? 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. Born in Topeka, 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 and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt M nster f r Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel.
LC Classification Number
PS3612.E68L43 2011
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