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10:04 by Ben Lerner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Ben Lerner is a brilliant novelist, and one unafraid to make of the novel something truly new. 10:04 is a work of endless wit, pleasure, relevance, and vitality." --Rachel Kushner, author of The FlamethrowersLeaving the Atocha Station was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels...of his gene ...Show more
10:04: A Novel by Dr Ben Lerner
$36.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 hi ...Show more
Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Description: No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore."Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes,"than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not exp ...Show more
Keeping / the window open by Waldrop, Keith, Waldrop, Rosemarie, Lerner, Ben, Kunin, Aaron
$57.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: this story of a young American abroad and adrift is a hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists.
Mean Free Path by Dr Ben Lerner
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Lerner [is] among the most promising young poets now writing."--"Publishers Weekly""Sharp, ambitious, and impressive." --"Boston Review"National Book Award finalist Ben Lerner turns to science once again for his guiding metaphor. "Mean free path" is the average distance a particle travels before collid ...Show more
No Art:Poems by Ben Lerner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form and meaning, between private experience and public expression. No Art is an exhilarating argument both w ...Show more
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner; Ben Lerner (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors. Athena and Dexter live a happy but insular life, bound by routine and the care of their young sons. When Elizabeth, an old friend from Dexter's university days, turns up with her much younger sister, Vicki, and her ...Show more
The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter by Rosmarie Waldrop; Ben Lerner (Introduction by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Wonderfully, relentlessly absorbing, Hanky's several overlapping tales leave one marvelling at the beauty, economy, and humor with which Waldrop interweaves the complex tensions of Hitler's Germany in a family drama of repeated infidelity. Delightfully rich and bawdy and as strong-willed as its charact ...Show more
The Lights by Ben Lerner
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times.
The Snows of Venice by Alexander Kluge; Ben Lerner
$66.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
American author Ben Lerner (born 1979) and German filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge (born 1932) come from two different generations but share a single passion: an interest in the long-term effects of things. A line from Lerner's poem "The Sky Stops Painting and Turns to Criticism," which Kluge was st ...Show more