The Ask by Sam Lipsyte

The Ask by Sam Lipsyte

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.

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.

Lipsyte, Sam: - Sam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive and The Fun Parts and four novels: Hark, The Ask (a New York Times Notable Book), The Subject Steve, and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Believer Book Award. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories, among other places. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, he lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

SKU	CIN0374298912G
ISBN 13	9780374298913
ISBN 10	0374298912
Title	The Ask
Author	Sam Lipsyte
Condition	Good
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Farrar Straus Giroux
Year published	2010-03-02
Number of pages	296
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