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    av Ben Lerner
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    The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance.

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    - A Novel
    av Ben Lerner
    152,-

    FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARA TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA''S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio PrizeWinner of the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award ALSO NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Esquire, NPR, Vogue, Amazon, Kirkus, The Times (UK), Buzzfeed, Vanity Fair, The Telegraph (UK), Financial Times (UK), Lit Hub, The Times Literary Supplement (UK), The New York Post, Daily Mail (UK), The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian (UK), Electric Literature, SPY.com, and the New York Public Library From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New RightAdam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ΓÇÖ97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting ΓÇ£lost boysΓÇ¥ to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren EberheartΓÇöwho is, unbeknownst to Adam, his fatherΓÇÖs patientΓÇöinto the social scene, to disastrous effect.Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, Ben Lerner''s The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: JaneΓÇÖs reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, JonathanΓÇÖs marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men.

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    300,-

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    216,-

    Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award uses "broken sonnets" to explore complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture.

  • av Ben Lerner
    202,-

  • - The Natural Health and Happiness System That Never Fails
    av Ben Lerner
    237,-

    No more dependence on cold medicines, prescription pills, and anti-depressants. With One-Minute Wellness , you will revitalize every area of your well-being. And the bonus fiction story (now at the front of the book) uniquely illustrates the authors' strategies at work in ordinary lives---a terrific motivator as you optimize your own life.

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