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^^^ .^Lslc is the best novel to date from a writer whose "turbocharged language and lethal timing elicit a stupefying range of laughs . . . You can't believe he thought that, wrote that, managed to pull it off" iBoo1{forum).
Milo Burke—husband, father, develop-ment officer at a third-tier university-has just joined the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is relieved to get another chance from his former boss. All he has to do is reel in a potential donor—a major "ask"— who, mysteriously, has requested Milo's involvement.
Probing several themes—or, perhaps, anxieties—including work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire. The Asli is a tour de force from a writer who has already shown that the deepest fictions are often the funniest.
Sam Lipsyte is the author
of the story collection Venus Drive and the... Tovább

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^^^ .^Lslc is the best novel to date from a writer whose "turbocharged language and lethal timing elicit a stupefying range of laughs . . . You can't believe he thought that, wrote that, managed to pull it off" iBoo1{forum).
Milo Burke—husband, father, develop-ment officer at a third-tier university-has just joined the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is relieved to get another chance from his former boss. All he has to do is reel in a potential donor—a major "ask"— who, mysteriously, has requested Milo's involvement.
Probing several themes—or, perhaps, anxieties—including work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire. The Asli is a tour de force from a writer who has already shown that the deepest fictions are often the funniest.
Sam Lipsyte is the author
of the story collection Venus Drive and the novels The Subject Steve and Home Land, winner of the Believer Book Award. He lives in New York City and teaches crea^ tive writing at Columbia University.

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Jacket illustrations of man (front) and boy (bocIO © Andrew Rae
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HOME LAND
"A hilarious rant crackling with rueful truth." —Time
"The kind of book that gets passed around, underlined, dog'eared It makes one laugh out loud while pondering the ways in which all lives,
invariably, go wrong." —Benjamin Alsup, Esquire
THE SUBJECT STEVE
"Precise, original, devious, and very funny. In a time when the language of most novels is dead on arrival, this book is startlingly alive." —Jeffrey Eugenides
"Smart, savvy and admirably ambitious Lips3rte excels in a kind of edgy hilarity, a breathless mirth the function of which is to mask feelings of dread and discomfort." —William Skidelsky, The Times Literaty Supplement
FICTION ISBN: 978-0-374-519891-»
VENUS DRIVE
"Explores the complexity of despair with poignancy and sly wit." —Christine Muhike, The Tifew Yor1{ Times Boofi Review
"Wonderfully written and compulsively readable,
with brilliant and funny dialogue . Sam Lipsjrte is a wickedly gifted writer." —Robert Stone
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