10:04: A Novel

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 Prize

A 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 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.

A 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.

Named One of the Best Books of the Year By:
*The 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*