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An edition of 10:04 (2014)

10:04

a novel

  • 3.80 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 14 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

While enjoying his newfound literary success, the narrator deals with a potentially fatal medical condition and a request to help his best friend conceive a child while living in New York, a city where there are frequent super storms and social unrest.

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English
Pages
244

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2015, Reservoir Books, RESERVOIR BOOKS
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10:04: a novel
2015, Emblem
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2014, McClelland & Stewart
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2014, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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10:04
2014, Faber and Faber

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Edition Notes

Issued also in electronic format.

Published in
Toronto]
Other Titles
Ten o'four
Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3612.E68 A613 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
244 pages
Number of pages
244

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL38245487M
Internet Archive
1004novel0000lern_d4l8
ISBN 10
0771047193
ISBN 13
9780771047190, 9780771047206
OCLC/WorldCat
884616468

Work Description

A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire. Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff Dyer, The Observer).

Now, his second novel departs from Leaving the Atocha Station's exquisite ironies in order to explore new territories of thought and feeling. In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his dating a rising star in the visual arts. In a New York of increasingly frequent super storms 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 captures what it's like to be alive now, when the difficulty of imagining a future has changed our relation to our present and our past. Exploring sex, friendship, medicine, memory, art, and politics, 10:04 is both a riveting work of fiction and a brilliant examination of the role fiction plays in our lives.

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