10:04 : a novel
Lerner, Ben, 1979-
10:04 : a novel / Ben Lerner. - First edition. - New York : Faber and Faber, Inc. , 2014 - 244 pages ; 22 cm
A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire 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. 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.
English.
9780865478107
Writers ----Fiction
Mortality----Fiction
Fatherhood ----Fiction
Man-woman relationships----Fiction
PS3612.E68 / A33 2014
FIC LER
10:04 : a novel / Ben Lerner. - First edition. - New York : Faber and Faber, Inc. , 2014 - 244 pages ; 22 cm
A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire 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. 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.
English.
9780865478107
Writers ----Fiction
Mortality----Fiction
Fatherhood ----Fiction
Man-woman relationships----Fiction
PS3612.E68 / A33 2014
FIC LER
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