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Transcription : a novel / Ben Lerner.

Lerner, Ben, 1979- (author.).

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"The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and the father of his college friend Max. Thomas is a giant in the arts who seems to hail "from the future and the past simultaneously" and who "reenchants the air" when he speaks. But the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink. He arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device, a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess. What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the narrator, and an exploration of fathers and sons, male friendship and rivalry, and the challenges of parenting in a burning world"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780374618599
  • ISBN: 0374618593
  • Physical Description: 130 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.

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Interviews > Fiction.
Sound recordings > Fiction.
Memory > Fiction.
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Male friendship > Fiction.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.

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  • 17 of 37 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 3 of 3 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Jacksonville Main Library FIC LERNER (Text) 36015000764932 Adult New Fiction Available -
Richlands Branch Library FIC LERNER (Text) 36015000764999 Adult New Fiction Available -
Sneads Ferry Branch Library FIC LERNER (Text) 36015000765053 Adult New Fiction Available -

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