Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner
Publisher: Coffee House Press

Leaving the Atocha Station, by Ben Lerner. Book: Leaving the Atocha Station (Powell's) (Amazon) (Kindle) (Because I know you guys will jump on this when you see the glowing review Amy gave it, heh, heh. I bought a copy of Prufrock and Other Observations recently. Four novels are in the running for the fiction prize: The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan; The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn; Leaving The Atocha Station by Ben Lerner and The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner. Shani Boianjiu, for The People of Forever Are Not Afraid; Ben Lerner, for Leaving the Atocha Station; Stuart Nadler, for The Book of Life; Asaf Schurr, for Motti (trans. The best novel I've read in the last couple of years was Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner, and I wish I could write like him. Todd Hasak-Lowy); Francesca Segal, for The Innocents. I forrige uke drakk poet/chapbook-redaktør Kenneth Pettersen og jeg kaffe sammen og oppdaget at vi leste på samme bok. Ben Lerner's arresting first novel sets a funhouse mirror before his own formative years as a poet, poseur, and pill-popper in Madrid. The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan; The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn; Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner; The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner. Boka er «Leaving the Atocha station», den kritikerroste romandebuten til amerikanske Ben Lerner.