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Ben Lerner

Hardcover | Pages: 244 pages

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Title	:	10:04
Author	:	Ben Lerner
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 244 pages
Published	:	December 31st 2014 by Granta (first published September 2nd 2014)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. New York

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In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.

In prose that Jonathan Franzen has called 'hilarious... cracklingly intelligent... and original in every sentence', Lerner's new novel charts an exhilarating course through the contemporary landscape of sex, friendship, memory, art and politics, and captures what it is like to be alive right now.

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Original Title:	10:04
ISBN:	1847088910 (ISBN13: 9781847088918)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Brooklyn, New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2015), Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2015)

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I have to say that, in general, there is nothing duller than a writer talking about how tough it is to be a writer. That is how this novel started out. I understand why people could view it as "pretentious." At first I found myself very put off by the overwhelming reflection on mundane objects or situations, the way the narrator would seem to obsess over them.BUT! I still found myself picking up this book every night. It was not a chore to read (most of it). And the obsessing eventually played



Here's a longish review ("Warm Core: The Unusually Associative Cyclonic System of Ben Lerners 10:04") I wrote soon after the book came out in mid-September that's just appeared in the DecJan issue of the Brooklyn Rail: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/12/b... The key insight: "The world rearranging itself around the narrator sounds a lot like solipsism, but instead of masturbating to Internet porn, the center of the rearranged world in this case does so in a fertility clinic to impregnate his

Ben Lerner's first novel, "Leaving the Atocha Station" was one of the most powerful reading experiences I've ever had, largely for purely personal reasons; I started reading that book (set mostly in Madrid and Barcelona) literally a day after I myself had concluded a visit to Spain, and seeing almost all of the places I had just visited serve as the background for that books gorgeous, misanthropic, elegantly sad narration was an extremely potent experience; like having a much more cynical, much

You think you have problems? Ben, the narrator of Ben Lerner's sarcastic, intelligent new novel, 10:04, has you beat. While he's struggling to write a follow-up to his first novel now that he's gotten a generous advance, New York is under threat of two serious hurricanes (Irene and Sandy), and his longtime best friend wants to have a baby with himwhether he wants to be involved or not. Oh, and at any time, his aorta could rupture, so he's convinced himself he has every symptom imaginable.10:04

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means". Inigo Montoya (Princess Bride)10:04 would make a great end-of-term paper for a certain type of creative writing course. It would score full marks for showing the writer's ability to use a thesaurus. The golden rules of this novel are to never say pigeon when you can wittily refer to "stout-bodied passerines" (your wit is shown all the more by doing this several times in the book), never say "it was foggy but not

It is not one of those really 'well-written' books that are featured in various famous book-lists probably because every once in a while, it leaves the main string, to which it was attached on the first, and leaves the reader in an isolated place but in some places, it does have some provocative ideas with a really good voice, and has some striking poetic tangents like this: