{"product_id":"leaving-the-atocha-station-paperback","title":"Leaving the Atocha Station - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam 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 relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's \"research\" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.\u003cp\u003eBorn in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, \u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three books of poetry \u003ci\u003eThe Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMean Free Path.\u003c\/i\u003e He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt M nster f r Internationale Poesie. \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry \u003ci\u003eThe Lichtenberg Figures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAngle of Yaw\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMean Free Path\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 181\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e L.A. Times Book Prize (2011)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Literary Award (2012)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Saroyan Writing Prize (2012)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52007944487213,"sku":"9781566892742","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/SjRGWEUvOXUyQW9BM0VXL0hLTG9RUT09.webp?v=1776819042","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/leaving-the-atocha-station-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}