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Topeka School : A Novel by Ben Lerner (2019, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374277788
ISBN-139780374277789
eBay Product ID (ePID)27044131085
Product Key Features
Book TitleTopeka School : a Novel
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TopicFamily Life, Coming of Age, Literary
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorBen Lerner
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
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ReviewsPraise for The Topeka School "Ben Lerner is a brilliant novelist, and one unafraid to make of the novel something truly new . . . He is one of my favorite living writers." --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers " The Topeka School is what happens when one of the most discerning, ambitious, innovative, and timely writers of our day writes his most discerning, ambitious, innovative and timely novel to date. It's a complete pleasure to read Lerner experimenting with other minds and times, to watch his already profound talent blooming into new subjects, landscapes, and capacities. This book is a prehistory of a deeply disturbing national moment, but it's written with the kind of intelligence, insight, and searching that makes one feel well-accompanied and, in the final hour, deeply inspired." -- Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts "In Ben Lerner's riveting third novel, Midwestern America in the late nineties becomes a powerful allegory of our troubled present. The Topeka School deftly explores how language not only reflects but is at the very center of our country's most insidious crises. In prose both richly textured and many-voiced, we track the inner lives of one white family's interconnected strengths and silences. What's revealed is part tableau of our collective lust for belonging, part diagnosis of our ongoing national violence. This is Lerner's most essential and provocative creation yet." --Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric " The Topeka School is a novel of exhilarating intellectual inquiry, penetrating social insight, and deep psychological sensitivity. Its beautifully realized characters are shaped, even in the privacy of their inner lives, by the pressures of history and culture--this is a book not only about how things really feel, but what things really mean. To the extent that we can speak of a future at present, I think the future of the novel is here." --Sally Rooney, author of the forthcoming Normal People "Ben Lerner has redefined what it means for a writer to inhabit an American present by showing how a family reckons with its past. Here the personal and political are masterfully interwoven. The Topeka School is brave, furious, and, finally, a work of love." --Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the forthcoming On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Praise for 10:04 "Reading Ben Lerner gives me the tingle at the base of my spine that happens whenever I encounter a writer of true originality. He is a courageous, immensely intelligent artist who panders to no one and yet is a delight to read." --Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Marriage Plot "Just how many singular reading experiences can one novelist serve up? . . . 10:04 is a mind-blowing book ... Strange and spectacular." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "This is a book that belongs to the future." --Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books "[Lerner's] concerns wrap around the modern moment with terrifying rightness . . . 10:04 describes what it feels like to be alive." --John Freeman, The Boston Globe "Mr. Lerner is among the most interesting young American novelists at present . . . We come to relish seeing the world through [the narrator's] eyes." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Ingenious . . . This brain-tickling book imbues real experiences with a feeling of artistic possibility, leaving the observable world 'a little changed, a little charged.'" --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal, Praise for Ben Lerner "Mr. Lerner is among the most interesting young American novelists at present." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[Lerner's] concerns wrap around the modern moment with terrifying rightness." --John Freeman, The Boston Globe "The Topeka School is...his most discerning, ambitious, innovative and timely novel to date. It's a complete pleasure to read Lerner experimenting with other minds and times, to watch his already profound talent blooming into new subjects, landscapes, and capacities. This book is a prehistory of a deeply disturbing national moment, but it's written with the kind of intelligence, insight, and searching that makes one feel well-accompanied and, in the final hour, deeply inspired." -- Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts, Praise for The Topeka School "Ben Lerner is a brilliant novelist, and one unafraid to make of the novel something truly new . . . He is one of my favorite living writers." --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers " The Topeka School is what happens when one of the most discerning, ambitious, innovative, and timely writers of our day writes his most discerning, ambitious, innovative and timely novel to date. It''s a complete pleasure to read Lerner experimenting with other minds and times, to watch his already profound talent blooming into new subjects, landscapes, and capacities. This book is a prehistory of a deeply disturbing national moment, but it''s written with the kind of intelligence, insight, and searching that makes one feel well-accompanied and, in the final hour, deeply inspired." -- Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts "In Ben Lerner''s riveting third novel, Midwestern America in the late nineties becomes a powerful allegory of our troubled present. The Topeka School deftly explores how language not only reflects but is at the very center of our country''s most insidious crises. In prose both richly textured and many-voiced, we track the inner lives of one white family''s interconnected strengths and silences. What''s revealed is part tableau of our collective lust for belonging, part diagnosis of our ongoing national violence. This is Lerner''s most essential and provocative creation yet." --Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric " The Topeka School is a novel of exhilarating intellectual inquiry, penetrating social insight, and deep psychological sensitivity. Its beautifully realized characters are shaped, even in the privacy of their inner lives, by the pressures of history and culture--this is a book not only about how things really feel, but what things really mean. To the extent that we can speak of a future at present, I think the future of the novel is here." --Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Ben Lerner is a masterful writer who destabilizes the very notion of what a novel can achieve by making it new at every turn. The Topeka School is not only a fiction for our times, but for the ages: insightful, humane, politically astute, and true." --Hilton Als, author of White Girls "Ben Lerner has redefined what it means for a writer to inhabit an American present by showing how a family reckons with its past. Here the personal and political are masterfully interwoven. The Topeka School is brave, furious, and, finally, a work of love." --Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the forthcoming On Earth We''re Briefly Gorgeous Praise for 10:04 "Reading Ben Lerner gives me the tingle at the base of my spine that happens whenever I encounter a writer of true originality. He is a courageous, immensely intelligent artist who panders to no one and yet is a delight to read." --Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Marriage Plot "Just how many singular reading experiences can one novelist serve up? . . . 10:04 is a mind-blowing book ... Strange and spectacular." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR''s Fresh Air "This is a book that belongs to the future." --Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books "[Lerner''s] concerns wrap around the modern moment with terrifying rightness . . . 10:04 describes what it feels like to be alive." --John Freeman, The Boston Globe "Mr. Lerner is among the most interesting young American novelists at present . . . We come to relish seeing the world through [the narrator''s] eyes." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Ingenious . . . This brain-tickling book imbues real experiences with a feeling of artistic possibility, leaving the observable world ''a little changed, a little charged.''" --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal, "Ben Lerner is a masterful writer who destabilizes the very notion of what a novel can achieve by making it new at every turn. The Topeka School is not only a fiction for our times, but for the ages: insightful, humane, politically astute, and true." --Hilton Als, author of White Girls "In Ben Lerner's riveting third novel, Midwestern America in the late nineties becomes a powerful allegory of our troubled present. The Topeka School deftly explores how language not only reflects but is at the very center of our country's most insidious crises. In prose both richly textured and many-voiced, we track the inner lives of one white family's interconnected strengths and silences. What's revealed is part tableau of our collective lust for belonging, part diagnosis of our ongoing national violence. This is Lerner's most essential and provocative creation yet." --Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric " The Topeka School is what happens when one of the most discerning, ambitious, innovative, and timely writers of our day writes his most discerning, ambitious, innovative and timely novel to date. It's a complete pleasure to read Lerner experimenting with other minds and times, to watch his already profound talent blooming into new subjects, landscapes, and capacities. This book is a prehistory of a deeply disturbing national moment, but it's written with the kind of intelligence, insight, and searching that makes one feel well-accompanied and, in the final hour, deeply inspired." -- Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts " The Topeka School is a novel of exhilarating intellectual inquiry, penetrating social insight, and deep psychological sensitivity. Its beautifully realized characters are shaped, even in the privacy of their inner lives, by the pressures of history and culture--this is a book not only about how things really feel, but what things really mean. To the extent that we can speak of a future at present, I think the future of the novel is here." --Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Ben Lerner is a brilliant novelist, and one unafraid to make of the novel something truly new . . . He is one of my favorite living writers." --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers "Ben Lerner has redefined what it means for a writer to inhabit an American present by showing how a family reckons with its past. Here the personal and political are masterfully interwoven. The Topeka School is brave, furious, and, finally, a work of love." --Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the forthcoming On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Praise for 10:04 "Reading Ben Lerner gives me the tingle at the base of my spine that happens whenever I encounter a writer of true originality. He is a courageous, immensely intelligent artist who panders to no one and yet is a delight to read." --Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Marriage Plot "Just how many singular reading experiences can one novelist serve up? . . . 10:04 is a mind-blowing book ... Strange and spectacular." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "This is a book that belongs to the future." --Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books "[Lerner's] concerns wrap around the modern moment with terrifying rightness . . . 10:04 describes what it feels like to be alive." --John Freeman, The Boston Globe "Mr. Lerner is among the most interesting young American novelists at present . . . We come to relish seeing the world through [the narrator's] eyes." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Ingenious . . . This brain-tickling book imbues real experiences with a feeling of artistic possibility, leaving the observable world 'a little changed, a little charged.'" --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
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SynopsisWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES , TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Winner 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 Right Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" 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 Eberheart--who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his father's patient--into the social scene, to disastrous effect. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane's reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan's 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., 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 right., FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR A TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Winner 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 Right Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" 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 Eberheart--who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his father's patient--into the social scene, to disastrous effect. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane's reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan's 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., A NEW YORK TIMES , TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Esquire, NPR , Vogue, Amazon, Kirkus, The Times (UK), The Telegraph (UK), Financial Times (UK), Lit Hub, The Times Literary Supplement (UK), 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 Right Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" 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 Eberheart--who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his father's patient--into the social scene, to disastrous effect. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane's reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan's 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3612.E68T63 2019
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- Jan 19, 2022
Highly recommend book by many trusted reviewers.
I purchased this book because I have read other books by Ben Lerner and liked them. This had a great review by Kirkus Books and I trust and find their reviews honest. Have not read it as yet. I buy quite a few books at a time. Sounds like my kind of book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Apr 24, 2025
Impossible to read because of small print
The print was so small that I was unable to read it!!!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
