THE TOPEKA SCHOOL By Ben Lerner [ This was selected as one of the Book Review’s 10 best books of 2019.See the full list. . 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, Ben Lerner's 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. . ... Erin Entrada Kelly and Washington Post reviewers share their favorites. Clearly, Hollywood special effects are still playing catch-up with the magic our very best writers can spin. . . . He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, Howard, and MacArthur Foundations. "—Giles Harvey, The New York Times Magazine"Fiercely intelligent." . Narration from the present-day and interludes hinting at a terrible tragedy add intrigue to this study of polarization and toxic masculinity.” —Entertainment Weekly"This third novel from Lerner (Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04) arrives laden with the kind of hype that can sink a story from the get-go (“the future of the novel is here”). . Among the myriad miracles of The Topeka School is that it accomplishes so much, captures so much and questions so much about America in fewer than 300 pages.” ―Ron Charles, The Washington Post "[The Topeka School] is thoroughly, intimidatingly brilliant and absolutely contemporary. It ignores his real lineage, the great literature of passivity, failure and refusal: Melville’s Bartleby, the novels of Robert Walser and László Krasznahorkai. Among the myriad miracles of The Topeka School is that it accomplishes so much, captures so much and questions so much about America in fewer than 300 pages.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post "[The Topeka School] is thoroughly, intimidatingly brilliant and absolutely contemporary. It's funny, and at times, painfully acute . . —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. . 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 ’97. . —Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Marriage Plot"Just how many singular reading experiences can one novelist serve up? . . 10:04 describes what it feels like to be alive.” —John Freeman, The Boston Globe“Mr. The beautiful recollections of childhood in The Topeka School allow for a Portrait of the Artist–type origin story.” —Mark Greif, Bookforum“Provocative and illuminating, this is a story for your head and your heart to enjoy.” --SPY.com (12 Best Books of the Year) “[An] essayistic and engrossing novel . The story takes place in the 1990s in Topeka, Kan., where a high school senior named Adam Gordon is a star on the debate team (as was Lerner). The Topeka School deftly explores how language not only reflects but is at the very center of our country’s most insidious crises. Review: Stanford assault victim Chanel Miller's new book indicts her attacker — and the system. 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 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. [Lerner] has written a perfectly weighted, hugely intelligent, entirely entertaining novel that does more than simply mine his childhood or explore what it is to be an author; he has taken on American masculinity, group identity and marginalization, political messaging and generational exchange, and has done so not didactically but generously and with admirable sensitivity.” --The Times Literary Supplement (UK) "Because Lerner draws so freely from his own life, he is often grouped together with other writers of autofiction, like Karl Ove Knausgaard and Sheila Heti, which does his work a slight disservice. Memoirs and histories share space with true crime and a surprise bestseller: The Mueller Report. . Keefe interweaves her story with the rise of Dolours Price, an Irish Republican Army member who was involved in McConville’s death. “Know My Name” is a gut-punch, yes, but also blessedly hopeful. —Sally Rooney, author of 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. Lerner's novel offers a compelling exploration of how we got here, and where we might go.

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