The Ask by Lipsyte, Sam

The Ask

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

The Ask

$35.73

The Ask

$35.73
Author: Sam Lipsyte
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Sam Lipsyte
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.58w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780312680633


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/10/2011 pg. 28

About the Author
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.


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