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Leaving the Atocha Station Audiobook, by Ben Lerner Play Audiobook Sample

Leaving the Atocha Station Audiobook

By: Ben Lerner
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Read By: Ben Lerner Publisher: Dreamscape Media Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2011 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781666595796
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Total Audiobook Chapters:

114

Longest Chapter Length:

05:49 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

01:59 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

02:59 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

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 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?

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"This little book is filled with moments of excellence. This novel will take its rightful place next to Lerner's three poetry collections whose words and phrases haunt me daily. "

— Joe (5 out of 5 stars)

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    " I didn't like it. I expected more, having read the reviews. It's a pitty cause it has a nice idea, and some art references quite interesting. But that kind of everyday language with a smarty kind of way and a lack of a convincing plot is NOT my style. What a pitty... "

    — Magda, 10/31/2011
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    " Madrid, weirdly, is exactly like this. Even if you're not on tranquilizers. "

    — Caroline, 9/9/2011
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    " I won this book in a good reads contest. I'm really looking forward to reading this book. "

    — Caitlin, 7/27/2011
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    " Moving. I received this book free from Goodreads First Reads. Thank you. "

    — Ctb, 7/25/2011

About Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner, born in Topeka, Kansas, is an acclaimed author and a professor of English at Brooklyn College. His novel The Topeka School was named a best book of the year by Time, Esquire, Vogue, Vulture, and many other major publications. His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, won the 2012 Believer Book Award, and excerpts from 10:04 have been awarded the Paris Review‘s Terry Southern Prize. He has published three poetry collections: Mean Free Path, The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, Howard, and MacArthur Foundations.