Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 22 results for “ben lerner”
Skip side bar filters

  • Transcription

    A Novel

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Winner of the Orwell PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by The New York TimesFrom “the most talented writer of his generation” (Giles Harvey, 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 Lern... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Leaving the Atocha Station

    by Ben Lerner ...
    From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the experience of the young American abroad while exploring the possibilities of art and authenticity in our time.Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 10:04: A Novel

    by Ben Lerner ...
    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.**Winner of The Paris Review's 2012 Terry Southern PrizeA Finalist for the 2014 Folio Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award**In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Topeka School

    A Novel

    by Ben Lerner ...
    FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER 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 YEARFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award</str... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lichtenberg Figures

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Series series Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets
    The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. “Lichtenberg figures” are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning.Throughout this playful and elegiac debut—with its flashes of autobiography, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Angle of Yaw

    by Ben Lerner ...
    In his bold second book, Ben Lerner molds philosophical insight, political outrage, and personal experience into a devastating critique of mass society. Angle of Yaw investigates the fate of public space, public speech, and how the technologies of viewing-aerial photography in particular-feed our culture an image of itself. And it’s a spectacular view.The man observes the action on the field with ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Hatred of Poetry

    by Ben Lerner ...
    No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • One Minute Wellness

    The Natural Health and Happiness System That Never Fails

    by Ben Lerner ...
    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 uniquely illustrates the authors' strategies at work in ordinary lives-a terrific motivator as you optimize your own life. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Transcription

    A Novel

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Narrated by Seth Numrich ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 15 min

    “Seth Numrich narrates this metaphysical, poetic journey with great sensitivity and a perceptive ear for heightened language.” — Kirkus"[Narrator Seth Numrich**] uses a credible Central European accent for Thomas and a softer voice than the main character’s for Max, helping make them three-dimensional in a way that reading them on the page never could.” — The Local Insider**From the “most talented ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Topeka School

    A Novel

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Narrated by Nancy Linari, Peter Berkrot, Tristan Wright ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 34 min

    Named one of the most anticipated fall books by:Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Vogue, Vulture, The Observer, Kirkus, Lit Hub, The Millions, The Week, Oprah Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Nylon, Pacific Standard, Publishers Weekly, Slate, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The GuardianFrom the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive famil... ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Leaving the Atocha Station

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Narrated by Ben Lerner ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's 'research' becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    10:04

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 21 min

    In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his dating a rising star in the visual arts. In a New York of increasingly frequent super storms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility ... Read more

    $24.99 USD