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Leaving the Atocha StationVeering between the comic and tragic, the self contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of a generation. Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self prescribed tranquillizers,

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many ordinary Germans called for a national messiah

Gordon-Reed shows how

Repulsion is a surreal

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poetry and arch humour combine to make this tale of old versus new at once deeply moving and razor-sharp

her voice has always remained the same

As the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography

hopeful and jealous

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