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  EDITORIAL REVIEW: 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, *The Ask *is a burst of genius by
a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often the
funniest ones. “**If you’ve heard anything about Sam Lipsyte, you’ve probably heard that he’s
funny. Scabrously, deliriously, piss-yourself funny** (his characters would no doubt find a dirtier, and funnier, way of
putting it), drawing audible snorts even from the kind of people, such as the people in his novels, who are way too cool
to laugh out loud . . . **Lipsyte’s prose arrows fly with gloriously weird spin, tracing punch-drunk curlicues
before hitting their marks—or landing in some weird alternate**.” **—**Jennifer Schuessler, *The New York
Review of Books* “**Lipsyte shakes his comic cocktail of sarcasm and bitter impotence to eloquent effect**:
briefcases on wheels are “luggage for people not going anywhere,” and a Manhattan salad bar consists of
“go-goo for the regular folk, these lumpy lumpen lunches.” **Milo**** is repulsive, hilarious, and
devastatingly self-aware, but it is his country that is Lipsyte’s real subject**.”** —***The New
Yorker* “**So let’s read Lipsyte and rejoice; let’s celebrate the laugh-producing Milo Burkes who are
all too rarely brought to us by brave and bitter men—let’s celebrate the canny, well-educated yet perpetually
failing furtive Internet onanists, the dark, half-crippled, doughnut-gobbling man-apes of the literary world, who cast
their lumpen shadows across the rest of us.** These are the kind of unlikeable, lovable protagonists we miss; these are
the self-loathing, mediocre secret geniuses who can set our people free.” **—**Lydia Millet,** ***The New York
Times Book Review* “[*The Ask*] is ****a biting, bilious and often brilliant book**** . . . It started, for me, as a
comic, bad-boy outing on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. It concludes somewhere much darker and richer than a theme park.
‘Heavens to Betsy,’ I murmured when I finished. ‘What a book.’” **—**Karen Long,**
***The Plain Dealer* “Lipsyte’s brand of absurdity is deeply rooted in the now. The recession, text
messaging, reality TV*—*all are up for grabs. What’s particularly effective is Lipsyte’s acerbic yet
subtle approach . . . But he’s never simply bitter; one can always sense a yearning in this book, even at its
most acidic moments . . . **Precision and painstaking craft have granted Lipsyte complete authority in *The Ask*, his
most acidic and empathetic work to date**.” *—Kimberly King Parsons, Time Out New York *(five stars)
“****Sardonic, brilliant**** . . . Lipsyte skewers everything from precious preschools to academia, displaying an
effortless grace and style all his own.” **—***People *(three-and-a-half stars) “An **off-kilter and
hilarious** novel about work, war, sex, class, children—and Benjamin Franklin.”** —***O, The Oprah
Magazine* “The riffs on fatherhood, work, and sex in Sam Lipsyte’s unsparingly comic novel *The Ask* explode
like a string of firecrackers**—so funny you might lose an eye**.” **—***Vanity Fair* “**It’s
customary for radically sardonic, corrosively funny writers to put in time as mere cult icons, but enough already:
everybody should read Sam Lipsyte.**”** —***TIME* “**One of the greatest black-humorists alive, Lipsyte
has gone unnoticed for far too long**. With his third novel, about the painfully hilarious adventures of a failed
painter in a dead-end job**, he should finally get the acclaim he deserves.” —***Details* “**[The] gift is
Lipsyte’s writing: a chewy, corrosive, and syntactically dazzling prose style that doesn’t so much run
across the page as pick it up and throttle it. A-**” **—**Leah Greenblatt, *Entertainment Weekly*
“**Acrid, hilarious, and hard to put down**.” **—**The Must List, *Entertainment Weekly*
*“*It’s not easy to write a really funny book about such anxiety-producing topics as love, death, failure and
our currently terrifying economy, but that’s exactly what Sam Lipsyte has accomplished with his terrific new
novel, *The Ask . . .* This novel isn’t afraid to show the darker side of life, but while *The Ask* can be **a
bone-chilling read, it somehow still makes you laugh out loud.**”** —***The Observer’s *Very Short List
“If you're the sort of person who underlines amusing or thought-provoking lines in books, you best gird yourself, as
Lipsyte is an inexhaustible fount of eloquent prurience, deftly mingling high- and low-mindedness.”* —Rob
Harvilla, Village Voice* “With this novel, Mr. Lipsyte has proven himself to be one of the most unapologetic voices
of contemporary literature. He mines the sexual frustration of Philip Roth, combines it with the paranoia of Don DeLillo
and fills the space in between with a cast of characters as absurd and enigmatic as anything in a Thomas Pynchon novel .
. . *The Ask* is a hilarious book about failure; a scathing unhappy comedy obsessed with a culture that’s
obsessed with obsessions.”** —**Michael Miller,** ***The New York Observer* “There’s probably not a
living American writer who has so comprehensively mined the comic possibilities of that particular anguished, hapless
combination of the overeducated and the underachieving as Sam Lipsyte. Against all odds, his heroes refuse to succeed,
and they and we are rewarded with the endlessly entertaining spectacle of their nonstop humiliation.” **—**Jim
Shepard, *Bookforum* *“***Another savage, hilarious black comedy from Lipsyte** . . . Once again, Lipsyte creates a
main character whose **lacerating, hyper-eloquent wit** is directed both outward at the world—sardonic commentary on
parenthood, class privilege, sexuality, the working world, education, ideas of Americanness and much more—and
inward; Milo spares himself no degradation, no self-loathing, nothing. As it goes on one can’t help noticing,
beneath the fevered playfulness, a deeply earnest moral vision akin to that of Joseph Heller or Stanley Elkin. **The
author’s most ambitious work yet—a brilliant and scabrously entertaining riff on contemporary
America**.” **—***Kirkus Reviews* (starred review) **“Lipsyte’s pitch-black comedy takes aim at
marriage, work, parenting, abject failure (the author’s signature soapbox) and a host of subjects you
haven’t figured out how to feel bad about yet.** This latest slice of mucked-up life follows Milo Burke, a
washed-up painter living in Astoria, Queens, with his wife and three-year-old son, as he’s jerked in and out of
employment at a mediocre university where Milo and his equally jaded cohorts solicit funding from the “Asks,”
or those who financially support the art program. Milo’s latest target is Purdy Stuart, a former classmate turned
nouveau aristocrat to whom Milo quickly becomes indentured. Purdy, it turns out, needs Milo to deliver payments to
Purdy’s illegitimate son, a veteran of the Iraq War whose titanium legs are fodder for a disgruntlement that
makes the chip on Milo’s shoulder a mere speck of dust by comparison. Submission is the order of the day, but
where *Home Land* had a working-class trajectory, **this takes its tone of lucid lament to the devastated white-collar
sector; in its merciless assault on the duel between privilege and expectation, it arrives at a rare articulation of
empire in decline.***” ***—***Publishers Weekly* (starred review) **“**Lipsyte’s third novel, a
darkly humorous story of sons and fathers, is both **his most realistic and convulsively hilarious to date **. . .
**Lipsyte’s razor-sharp eye filets dying America** (a fractiously culty daycare; a reality cooking show set on
death row; the scarified plaguescape of a lonely first generation social networking site), **throwing off brilliant
riffs and exhilaratingly steep dives from frontal lobe to perineum, sauced with yummy dollops of white liberal guilt . .
. Yet for all his wit, Lipsyte’s narrator is not above it all but deeply, messily down in it**: the casual
miracles of parenthood, the deepening thrum of mortality, the grim perdurance of a shaky marriage, ‘warm with that
feeling of wanting a feeling that maybe had already fled.’ **Seriously funny, Lipsyte sits alongside such
illustrious Daves as Gates, Eggers, and Foster Wallace on the self-conscious shelf, but with a heartfelt brilliance all
his own.** **—**David Wright,* Booklist *(starred review)
  EDITORIAL REVIEW:
  
  
  
  A hilarious collection of stories from the
writer The New York Times called “the novelist of his generation”
  
  Returning to the form in
which he began, Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestseller The Ask, offers up The Fun Parts, a book of bold,
hilarious, and deeply felt fiction. A boy eats his way to self-discovery while another must battle the
reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. Meanwhile, an aerobics instructor, the daughter of a Holocaust
survivor, makes the most shocking leap imaginable to save her soul. These are just a few of the stories, some first
published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, or Playboy, that unfold in Lipsyte’s richly imagined world.
 
 Other tales feature a grizzled and possibly deranged male birth doula, a doomsday hustler about to face the
multi-universal truth of “the real-ass jumbo,” and a tawdry glimpse of the northern New Jersey high school
shot-putting circuit, circa 1986. Combining both the tragicomic dazzle of his beloved novels and the compressed vitality
of his classic debut collection, The Fun Parts is Lipsyte at his best—an exploration of new voices and vistas
from a writer Time magazine has said “everyone should read.” 						

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