num_pages: 256
description: 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 during the twilight of an empire when the difficulty of imagining a future is changing our relationship to both the present and the past.
language: English
title: 10:04
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux