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Book Overview Named a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by The New York TimesFrom "the most talented writer of his generation" (The New York Times Magazin...
Named a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by The New York Times
From "the most talented writer of his generation" (The New York Times Magazine), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store--or to erase--our memories.
The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and the father of his college friend Max. Thomas is a giant in the arts who seems to hail from the future and the past simultaneously and who reenchants the air when he speaks. But the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink. He arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device, a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.
What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the narrator, and an exploration of fathers and sons, male friendship and rivalry, and the challenges of parenting in a burning world. One of the first great novels about the early days of Covid, it is also a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich or impoverish our connection to one another, that store or obliterate memory. Full of startling insight, but summoning the intensity of a s
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 144 | Language: English | Publisher: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX | ISBN: 0374618593
FormatHardcover
Pages144
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0374618593
EAN9780374618599
PublisherFARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
Publication Date2026-04-07
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight0.55 Pounds
Length8.44 Inches
Width5.95 Inches
Height0.67 Inches
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