Thirty -five -year -old Ben Lerner is one of the most interesting young writers in the United States. Three of his poetic collections were awarded prestigious awards, and the first novel was recognized as the best book of the year by many authoritative magazines. The action of his second novel “22:04” takes place in a shabby hurricanes in New York. The novice writer almost simultaneously learns about the dizzying success of his book, about the danger of a fatal hereditary disease over him and about the desire of a girlfriend to conceive with his help the child by artificial insemination. The threat of sudden death in combination with the prospect of paternity exacerbates its perception of life. Against the backdrop of everyday personal mini-crisis and a large general crisis of his life, in constant roll call with the film “Back to the Future”, he begins to perceive what is happening and imagine a certain future world, where everything will be almost the same as in our world, only a little differently.
Author
Lerner Ben
Translator
Motylev Leonid
Publisher
Corpus, 2015
16+
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