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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 -
" Madrid, weirdly, is exactly like this. Even if you're not on tranquilizers. "
— Caroline, 9/9/2011 -
" I won this book in a good reads contest. I'm really looking forward to reading this book. "
— Caitlin, 7/27/2011 -
" 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.