Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Leaving the Atocha Station is the first novel of poet turned novelist Ben Lerner. The book marks Lerner's transition from poetry to prose. Book: Leaving the Atocha Station (Powell's) (Amazon) (Kindle) (Because I know you guys will jump on this when you see the glowing review Amy gave it, heh, heh. The descriptions in this book occasionally left me so floored that I had to put the book down and go to sleep. Published June 4th, 2013 at 10:55 am in Bullet Train, High Speed Train with no comments. The best novel I've read in the last couple of years was Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner, and I wish I could write like him. In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired,. Leaving the Atocha Station is the title of American writer Ben Lerner's first novel, a book set in Madrid that has quickly become an American literary sensation. Leaving the Atocha Station, by Ben Lerner, came out in 2011 on Minneapolis' own Coffeehouse Press and everybody liked it. 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. And they were right–it's actually really good new fiction. Adam Gordon, the protagonist of Ben Lerner's well-received Leaving the Atocha Station, is a fake. If anyone asks, he is writing poetry about the Spanish Civil War. Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of his generation. Download Leaving the Atocha Station The novel has earned the 33 year old Lerner excited critical praise . AVE high speed train leaving Madrid Atocha station May 2013. Gaetan Soucy's The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches. Leaving the Atocha Station book download. 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?