10:04 : a novel / Ben Lerner.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Faber and Faber, Inc. , 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 244 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780865478107
- FIC LER
- PS3612.E68 A33 2014
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction / Ficción | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | General | FIC LER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Expurgado/No disponible | 013607 |
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.
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