Ask e-bog
81,03 DKK
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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 "e;not been developing"e;: after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after o...
E-bog
81,03 DKK
Forlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Udgivet
1 april 2010
Længde
304 sider
Genrer
FA
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781429931724
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 "e;not been developing"e;: 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 "e;ask"e;-who, mysteriously, has requested Milo's involvement. But it turns out that the ask is Milo's sinister college classmate Purdy Stuart. And the "e;give"e; 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.