{"product_id":"leaving-the-atocha-station-paperback","title":"Leaving the Atocha Station - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the experience of the young American abroad while exploring the possibilities of art and authenticity in our time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. 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? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? \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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e 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. Lerner 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. He teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn College. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis debut novel \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/i\u003e was named one of the best books of 2011 by the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ethe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ethe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e the Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others, and is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\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\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":57342490411313,"sku":"9781566892742","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/dFp3NiMwvb9781566892742.webp?v=1793937337","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/leaving-the-atocha-station-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}