A stunning, urgent, and original novel from Ben Lerner (The Topeka
School and Leaving the Atocha Station) about making art, love, and
children during the twilight of an empire.
Winner of The Paris Review's 2012 Terry Southern Prize
A Finalist for the 2014 Folio Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction
Award
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 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.
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.
Named One of the Best Books of the Year By:
The New Yorker The New York Times Book Review The Wall Street
Journal The Village Voice The Boston Globe NPR Vanity Fair The
Guardian (London) The L Magazine The Times Literary Supplement
(London) The Globe and Mail (Toronto) The Huffington Post Gawker
Flavorwire San Francisco Chronicle The Kansas City Star The
Jewish Daily Forward Tin House
