{"product_id":"10-04-a-novel","title":"10:04: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of The Paris Review's 2012 Terry Southern Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Finalist for the 2014 Folio Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed One of the Best Books of the Year By:\u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The CuriosiTea Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44020097253439,"sku":"9781250081339","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/0619\/3727\/files\/9781250081339.jpg?v=1790824129","url":"https:\/\/curiositeabookshop.com\/products\/10-04-a-novel","provider":"The CuriosiTea Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}