Leaving The Atocha Station

Author: Ben Lerner

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  • : 17.99 AUD
  • : 9781847086914
  • : Granta Books
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  • : October 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : April 2013
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  • : Ben Lerner
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Description

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 attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, and his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry.

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Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of a generation

Awards

Winner of The Believer Prize 2012. Runner-up for The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature 2013 and PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize 2012. Shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Fiction 2013 and William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 2012 and LA Times Book Awards: Young Adult Fiction 2011.