Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

Leaving the Atocha Station



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


The descriptions in this book occasionally left me so floored that I had to put the book down and go to sleep. I admit I had to look this word up when I first encountered it in Lerner's fine first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station. Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station is a quick, sometimes repetitive read. Gaetan Soucy's The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches. The hero of LAS, Adam Gordon, is fond of pot, lying, women who dislike him, poetry, and, mostly, himself. 9781847087454-1 leaving-the-atocha-station1. Leaving the Atocha Station documents the stay in Madrid of Adam Gordon, a young poet on a fellowship in early 2004, tracing his development as a poet over that period. Its protagonist is unsympathetic if sometimes disturbingly relatable. This novel is a stylish, audacious and self-assured debut that mercilessly exposes the artistic ego and, in doing so, both ridicules and humanises it. 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.





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