10:04 : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1847088910
- ISBN: 9781847088918
- ISBN: 1250081335
- ISBN: 9781250081339
- ISBN: 0865478104 (cloth)
- ISBN: 9780865478107 (cloth)
- ISBN: 0865478104 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780865478107 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780865478107 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0865478104 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780374711344 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
244 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff Dyer, The Observer). Now, his second novel departs from Leaving the Atocha Station's exquisite ironies in order to explore new territories of thought and feeling. In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his dating a rising star in the visual arts. In a New York of increasingly frequent super storms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water. In prose that 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 has changed our relation to our present and our past. Exploring sex, friendship, medicine, memory, art, and politics, 10:04 is both a riveting work of fiction and a brilliant examination of the role fiction plays in our lives"-- |
Language Note: | Text in English. |
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Subject: | Authors Fiction Mortality Fiction Fatherhood Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 12 of 12 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 0 of 0 copies available at Easton Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
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Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F LERNER, B.(PB) (Text) | 32544072401051 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC LERNER (Text) | 34014131327646 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Neck Library | FIC LER (Text) | 34046131344338 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC LERNER,B (Text) | 34026130949238 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | LERNER, BEN (Text) | 34037129260073 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | FIC LER (Text) | 33430129834164 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Ler (Text) | 33620125291712 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Norfolk Library | FIC LER (Text) | 36058010219711 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | FIC LERNER (Text) | 34010131050410 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Sherman Library | F LER (Text) | 34060116063300 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |