The
Topeka School
Ben Lerner (Author), Nancy
Linari (Narrator), Peter Berkrot (Narrator), Tristan Wright (Narrator), & 1
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2019
New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year
2019
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2019
National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2020
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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Named
one of the most anticipated fall books by Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Vogue,
Vulture, The Observer, Kirkus, Lit Hub, The Millions, The Week, Oprah Magazine,
The Paris Review Daily, Nylon, Pacific Standard, Publishers Weekly, Slate, The
Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Guardian
From
the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and
expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century:
a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise
to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right.
Adam Gordon is a senior at
Topeka High School, class of ’97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist
author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to
open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and
patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a
national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids,
ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from
thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner
Darren Eberheart - who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his father’s patient - into the
social scene, to disastrous effect.
Deftly shifting perspectives
and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and
its strengths: Jane’s reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father,
Jonathan’s marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a
culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present:
the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the
ongoing crisis of identity among white men.
Cover photograph from The
Wichita Eagle. 1990 McClatchy. All rights reserved. Used under license.
Kansas.com
Product
details
Author :
Ben Lerner
Narrator :
Nancy Linari, Peter Berkrot, Tristan Wright
Audible.com Release Date :
October 01, 2019
Publisher :
Macmillan Audio
Version :
Unabridged
Language :
English
ASIN :
B07THD243X
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