Lerner, Ben, 1979- <br/><br/>
10:04  : a novel 
/ Ben Lerner. 
 - First edition. 
 - New York  : Faber and Faber, Inc.  , 2014 
 - 244 pages  ; 22 cm 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780865478107 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Writers ----Fiction<br/>Mortality----Fiction<br/>Fatherhood ----Fiction<br/>Man-woman relationships----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3612.E68  / A33 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC LER