{"product_id":"transcription-hardcover-by-ben-lerner","title":"Transcription (Hardcover) by Ben Lerner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Orwell Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom “the most talented writer of his generation” (Giles Harvey,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store―or to erase―our memories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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. One of the first great novels about the early days of Covid, it is also a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich or impoverish our connection to one another, that store or obliterate memory. Full of startling insight, but summoning the intensity of a séance, Lerner’s writing shows us how the air is full of messages, full of ghosts. Ultimately, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTranscription\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e demonstrates what only a work of fiction can record.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"South \u0026 Pine and Blue Apple Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48481483129073,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shopsouthandpine.com\/products\/transcription-hardcover-by-ben-lerner","provider":"South \u0026 Pine and Blue Apple Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}