![]() ![]() His second novel, 10:04 Learner blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction to tell a story of a writer living in New York who has achieved unexpected success who finds out he has a potentially fatal medical condition. Leaving the Atocha Station was about an American poet on a fellowship in Madrid. I was first introduced to Ben Lerner’s writing from his debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station which came out in November 2011. “If there had been a way to say it without it sounding like presumptuous co-op nonsense, I would have wanted to tell her that discovering you are not identical with yourself even in the most disturbing and painful way still contains the glimmer, however refracted, of the world to come, where everything is the same but a little different because the past will be citable in all of its moments, including those from our present present happened but never occurred.” (p. ![]() Received from publisher in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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