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September 2014
On Sale: September 2, 2014
256 pages
ISBN: 0865478104
EAN: 9780865478107
Kindle: B00ILWNTTS
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Fiction
A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art,
love, and children during the twilight of an empire In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed
unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a
potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by
his
best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his
dating
a rising star in the visual arts. In a New York of
increasingly frequent super storms and political unrest,
he
must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility
of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of
(unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be
under water. In prose that 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 has changed our
relation to our present and our past. Exploring sex,
friendship, medicine, memory, art, and politics, 10:04 is
both a riveting work of fiction and a brilliant
examination
of the role fiction plays in our lives.
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