Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

Leaving the Atocha Station



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Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner ebook
Page: 186
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781566892742


I want to read this book by Ben Lerner (cool name, in German: studious Ben): Leaving the Atocha Station · Share via email. Ben Lerner's arresting first novel sets a funhouse mirror before his own formative years as a poet, poseur, and pill-popper in Madrid. Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station. I came to Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station via the bandwagon. In the case of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station, the buzz surrounding the book was so loud it almost turned me off. 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. I sat on the couch with a book after dinner and read until I had finished it, something I hadn't done in long enough that I was starting to fear I was no longer a reader. Coffee House Press is a non-profit book publisher so I was very grateful. Leaving The Atocha Station – Ben Lerner Book News. I bought a copy of Prufrock and Other Observations recently. Four novels are in the running for the fiction prize: The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan; The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn; Leaving The Atocha Station by Ben Lerner and The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner. The best novel I've read in the last couple of years was Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner, and I wish I could write like him. Following three notable collections of poetry—The Lichtenberg Figures (2004), Angle of Yaw (2006), and Mean Free Path (2010)— Atocha is Lerner's first major foray into prose fiction. If anyone asks, he is writing poetry about the Spanish Civil War. The people at Coffee House Press in Minneapolis were kind enough to send me a copy of Leaving the Atocha Station so that I could review it here. €�Leaving the Atocha Station” (2011, 181 pgs) by Ben Lerner. Leaving the Atocha Station, by Ben Lerner. For the duration of Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner's protagonist, Adam Gordon, is in Spain on a fellowship.





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