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The Ask - Paperback

by Sam Lipsyte
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sam LipsytePublish date:2011-03-01Pages:320
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312680633ISBN-10:312680635UPC:9780312680633Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Humorous, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.24 x 5.58 x 0.89 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SC4FA2KP1T

From the author of Home Land and Venus Drive comes Sam Lipsyte's searing, beautiful, and deeply comic novel, The Ask.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has "not been developing" after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is offered one last chance by his former employer: he must reel in a potential donor--a major "ask"--who, mysteriously, has requested Milo's involvement. But it turns out that the ask is Milo's sinister college classmate Purdy Stuart. And the "give" won't come cheap.

Probing many 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, Sam Lipsyte's The Ask is a burst of genius by an author who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often the funniest ones.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312680633ISBN-10:312680635UPC:9780312680633Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Humorous, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.24 x 5.58 x 0.89 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SC4FA2KP1T
Sam Lipsyte was born in 1968. He is the author of the story collections Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and The Fun Parts and several novels: The Ask, The Subject Steve and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
Publisher: Picador USA

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