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Lipsyte, Sam

 
9780374298913: The Ask
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ISBN 10: 0374298912 ISBN 13: 9780374298913
Editorial: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010

Sinopsis

A searing, beautiful, and deeply comic novel by a young American master

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.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

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Sam Lipsyte was born in 1968. He is the author of the story collection Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and the novels 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.

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Editorial
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0374298912
ISBN 13 
9780374298913
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
296
Contacto del fabricante
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9780312680633: Ask

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ISBN 10:  0312680635 ISBN 13:  9780312680633
Editorial: Picador, 2011
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