10/04

In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condi tion, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and po litical unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconven tional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.In prose that Jonathan Franzen has called 'hilarious... cracklingly inte lligent....[Llegir més]