10:04 is a strange and spectacular novel. Lerner obviously loves playing with language, stretching sentences out, folding them in on themselves, and making readers laugh out loud with the unexpected turns his paragraphs take. 10:04 is a mind-blowing book to use Lerner's own description, it's a book that's written ‘on the very edge of fiction'. “Just how many singular reading experiences can one novelist serve up?. We come to relish seeing the world through this man's eyes.” - Dwight Garner, The New York Times He's a walker in the city in conscious league with Walt Whitman. he's written a striking and important novel of New York City, partly because he's so cognizant of both past and present.

Lerner is among the most interesting young American novelists at present. The New Yorker The New York Times Book Review The Wall Street Journal The Village Voice The Boston Globe NPR Vanity Fair The Guardian (London) The L Magazine The Times Literary Supplement (London) The Globe and Mail (Toronto) The Huffington Post Gawker Flavorwire San Francisco Chronicle The Kansas City Star The Jewish Daily Forward Tin House Named One of the Best Books of the Year By: and original in every sentence,' Lerner captures what it's like to be alive now when the difficulty of imagining a future is changing our relationship to both the present and the past. In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his own mortality and the prospect of fatherhood in a city that might soon be underwater.Ī writer whose work Jonathan Franzen has called 'hilarious. In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Winner of The Paris Review's 2012 Terry Southern PrizeĪ Finalist for the 2014 Folio Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award A stunning, urgent, and original novel from Ben Lerner ( The Topeka School and Leaving the Atocha Station) about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.

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