10:04

Name: 10:04
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Ben Lerner
ISBN: 9781633790131

Author: Ben Lerner

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged: 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 09/23/2014

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

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. 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.

About Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, Howard, and MacArthur Foundations. 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: The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry), and Mean Free Path. Lerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William on September 10, 2014

Fluctuates between being brilliant and being the trivial ramblings of a pompous douchebag.......more

Goodreads review by Adam on May 06, 2019

A book to come back to. It is certainly not for everyone, and I'll recommend it more gingerly than many books that I've liked less. I'll try to go into why here. 10:04 (a great reference) has something of Wallace in how it takes pleasure in its own form, something of Sebald in its meandering, somethi......more

Goodreads review by William2 on October 28, 2021

The narrator is a millennial, a successful writer, a valetudinarian. There’s no plot. The novel’s character and verbiage driven. He likes multisyllabic words but don’t we all? He drives around Brooklyn and Manhattan. He takes the subway. He walks to a bar in DUMBO to see vaguely realized friends. He......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on September 10, 2014

I truly love this book. 10:04 works like a drug, heightening thought and drawing awareness to thought. Lerner maps out the history, science, emotions, objects, habits, and vibes that make up the complexity of each felt moment. Beautiful meditation on language. A real blast to read! Does things I've......more

Goodreads review by Pedro on January 20, 2022

Ben Lerner came to my attention when his The Topeka School was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize back in the year of the plague. Two years later, and after some research, I finally picked one of his novels up and, surprisingly, considering how weird it was, I think it’s safe to say that I’m definitel......more