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

Informationen zum Autor BEN LERNER was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station , 10:04 and The Topeka School. He has published the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures , Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award), Mean Free Path and No Art as well as the essay The Hatred of Poetry . Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn. Klappentext Paperback edition of one of the most striking and widely celebrated literary debuts of 2012 which veers between the comic and the tragic, and the self-contemptuous and the inspired. 'Seductively intelligent and stylish writing' "Independent" Zusammenfassung 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

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BEN LERNER was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School. He has published the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award), Mean Free Path and No Art as well as the essay The Hatred of Poetry. **Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn.

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Paperback edition of one of the most striking and widely celebrated literary debuts of 2012 which veers between the comic and the tragic, and the self-contemptuous and the inspired. 'Seductively intelligent and stylish writing' "Independent"