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Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner
Publisher: Coffee House Press

Poet, Ben Lerner's first novel is receiving plenty of praise from critics and readers alike. The protagonist of Ben Lerner's debut novel Leaving the Atocha Station is a serious weasel. Cate McGeehee investigates if it's warranted. The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan; The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn; Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner; The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner. Isobel Crowley reviews the debut novel by American author Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station, a bildungsroman with a twist and more than its share of humour. ARC received for free from Coffee House Press. Leaving the Atocha Station- Ben Lerner. Hay ocasiones en que la lectura del primer capítulo de una novela permite vislumbrar un festín literario. Publication: Aug 23, 2011 by Coffee House Press. -Started this on a train ride upstate and couldn't tear myself away. The descriptions in this book occasionally left me so floored that I had to put the book down and go to sleep. Gaetan Soucy's The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches. Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station (Londres: Granta Publications, 2012). In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle. Four novels are in the running for the fiction prize: The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan; The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn; Leaving The Atocha Station by Ben Lerner and The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner. My skepticism was rooted in the book I had just finished: much of Leaving the Atocha Station is concerned—or rather its protagonist, Adam Gordon, is concerned—with the purpose and practicalities of poetry. Senselessness- Horacio Castellanos Moya.