10:04

Hardcover, 244 pages

English language

Published April 17, 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-86547-810-7
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OCLC Number:
869770560

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4 stars (11 reviews)

"A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff Dyer, The Observer). Now, his second novel departs from Leaving the Atocha Station's exquisite ironies in order to explore new territories of thought and feeling. 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 …

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It’s as if one of the literary Jonathans got together with Helen DeWitt and this was their elder millennial love child. I love it.

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