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Leaving the Atocha Station

Paperback • 2013 • English

Leaving the Atocha Station

By Ben Lerner

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About the book

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying s...Show more

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ISBN

9781847086914

Publisher

Granta Books

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Leaving the Atocha Station

Format

Paperback

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