Leaving the Atocha Station. Ben Lerner

Leaving the Atocha Station


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Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner
Publisher: Coffee House Press



Here she reviews Ben Lerner's novel Leaving the Atocha Station for the History of Emotions Blog. Gaetan Soucy's The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches. Things started coming together for me while I was reading Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station: it contains multitudes. Leaving The Atocha Station – Ben Lerner. This week, we are giving away a copy of Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner. August 25, 2012 By bookadmin Leave a Comment. 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. For the duration of Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner's protagonist, Adam Gordon, is in Spain on a fellowship. Is Adam Gordon a brilliant young poet, embracing the richness of a foreign culture and meditating on the profound experience of art? Publication: Aug 23, 2011 by Coffee House Press. While browsing the shelves at La Central, I found a novel I'd never heard of before, Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner. If anyone asks, he is writing poetry about the Spanish Civil War. The descriptions in this book occasionally left me so floored that I had to put the book down and go to sleep. REVIEW: Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner. ARC received for free from Coffee House Press. Reviewed by Colin Post and Patrick Allen. Isobel Crowley reviews the debut novel by American author Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station, a bildungsroman with a twist and more than its share of humour. But cultural memory dies hard, so when the protagonist of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station is awarded a Fullbright to write a poem based on the Spanish Civil War, he expects anything but what modern Madrid is.





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