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Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

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

Publication: Aug 23, 2011 by Coffee House Press. In very different vein, the young American writer Ben Lerner recently published his first novel Leaving the Atocha Station (2011). Readers were interested to hear about Ben Lerner's book, Leaving the Atocha Station . 9781847087454-1 leaving-the-atocha-station1. ARC received for free from Coffee House Press. Book: Leaving the Atocha Station (Powell's) (Amazon) (Kindle) (Because I know you guys will jump on this when you see the glowing review Amy gave it, heh, heh. But cultural memory dies hard, so when the protagonist of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station is awarded a Fullbright to write a poem based on the Spanish Civil War, he expects anything but what modern Madrid is. I have finished 3 books on my holiday – far fewer than I wanted, but still not a bad number. 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. Leaving the Atocha Station is a novel by a poet about poetry. It's still one of my favorite books that I've read this year, and an absolutely fascinating wrestle with modernism and post-modernism. I'm catching up on book reviews. Nota en inglés sobre Leaving the Atocha Station de Ben Lerner, sobre el papel del arte en relación con la historia y la actualidad. Or rather, it is a novel about translation, pretense, inspiration, neurosis and inaction. For the duration of Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner's protagonist, Adam Gordon, is in Spain on a fellowship. If anyone asks, he is writing poetry about the Spanish Civil War. Its protagonist is unsympathetic if sometimes disturbingly relatable. 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. Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station is a quick, sometimes repetitive read.