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LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION
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| By: |
Ben Lerner |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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£2.70 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847086918 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847086914 |
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| Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2013 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
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 |
| Synopsis: |
Adam 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 attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, and his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Granta Books |
| Prizes: |
Winner of The Believer Prize 2012
Runner-up for The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature 2013
Runner-up for PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize 2012
Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Fiction 2013
Short-listed for William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 2012
Short-listed for LA Times Book Awards: Young Adult Fiction 2011 |
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