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Adam gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young american poet on a prestigious fellowship in madrid. Leaving the atocha station focuses on an american student living in. Find books like leaving the atocha station from the worlds largest community of readers. It is also a revealing study of what its like to be a young american. Share leaving the atocha station by ben lerner paperback, 20 the listing youre looking for has ended.
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Ordinarily, im not a fan of this kind of spinningoneswheels. Like lerners debut, leaving the atocha station, this is an extremely funny book, the narrators neuroses providing most of the laughs. It is also a strengthening poetry that we rarely see but intuitively, like the spaniards in the novel. Even in the face of tragedy, adam remains largely incapable of experiencing something like a real experience whatever that is. A novel by ben lerner august 23, 2011 6 x 9 186 pages 9781566892742 from a national book award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the experience of the. He teaches in the writing program at brooklyn college. What leaving the atocha station says about america the. Adam gordon, the narrator of ben lerners subtle, sinuous, and very funny first novel, leaving the atocha station coffee house. Adam visits barcelona with teresa and goes out to buy them coffee and gets lost on the streets for 12 hours.
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Before it, he published three well received books of smallpress modernist poetry, and probably no one will be surprised to hear that he has indeed spent a year doing some sort of research in madrid. Lerner is a poet, but this isn t a poetic novel, by which i mean the kind of work where mellifluous description acts as a kind of literary toupee. Leaving the atocha station is remarkable for its ability to be simultaneously warm, ruminative, heartbreaking, and funny. Leaving the atocha station paperback the elliott bay. Goodreads members who liked leaving the atocha station also lik. The firstperson narrator of the novel, adam gordon, is an. His debut novel leaving the atocha station was named one of the best books of 2011 by the wall street. Buy a cheap copy of leaving the atocha station book by ben lerner. Lerner is a poet, but this isn t a poetic novel, by which i mean the kind of work where.
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