{"product_id":"10-04-a-novel","title":"10:04: A Novel","description":"A 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.\n\nWinner of The Paris Review's 2012 Terry Southern Prize\n\nA Finalist for the 2014 Folio Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award\n\nIn 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.\n\nA 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.\n\nNamed One of the Best Books of the Year By:\nThe 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\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250081335\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1250081335.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Lerner, Ben\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43394800812093,"sku":"BVV.1250081335.A","price":7.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1250081335-0.jpg?v=1784841118","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/10-04-a-novel","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}