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Leaving the Atocha Station

Leaving the Atocha Station

Lerner, Ben

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HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1566892740
ISBN13: 9781566892742
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Aug 23 2011
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize, Literary Award, Sami Rohr Prize, Saroyan Writing Prize
From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the experience of the young American abroad while exploring the possibilities of art and authenticity in our time.

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's research becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by?

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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