{"product_id":"10-04-a-novel","title":"10:04: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning, urgent, and original novel from Ben Lerner (\u003ci\u003eThe Topeka School\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/i\u003e) about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 2012 Terry Southern Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A Finalist for the 2014 Folio Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the last year, the narrator of \u003ci\u003e10:04\u003c\/i\u003e has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his own mortality and the prospect of fatherhood in a city that might soon be underwater. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A writer whose work Jonathan Franzen has called \"hilarious . . . cracklingly intelligent . . . and original in every sentence,\" Lerner captures what it's like to be alive now when the difficulty of imagining a future is changing our relationship to both the present and the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed One of the Best Books of the Year By: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e NPR \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (London) \u003ci\u003eThe L Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e(London) \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003e(Toronto) \u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGawker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Kansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Daily Forward\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBen Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry, a Howard Foundation Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2012 Believer Book Award, and excerpts from \u003ci\u003e10:04\u003c\/i\u003e have been awarded \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Terry Southern Prize. He has published three\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epoetry collections: \u003ci\u003eThe Lichtenberg Figures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Angle of Yaw\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Mean Free Path\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eLerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn Colleg\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615602708754,"sku":"9781250081339","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25d21afe-9adf-47a6-ac73-e556ecdcbb67.jpg?v=1732495651","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/10-04-a-novel","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}