The Ask: A Novel

Description: Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010: How can a life so miserable be so funny? Is it because the stakes are so low (Milo Burke, the antihero of Sam Lipsyte's novel, The Ask, is a failure at many things, but most prominently at his job of pulling in major donors for a deadwater arts program at a middling university neither you nor he care about), or because they are so high (among them death, love, and the general squandering of the glories of creation on trivia)? Lipsyte's brilliant bile earned his previous novel, Home Land, one of the most passionate cult followings in recent years, and in The Ask that v ... (more)

Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release date: 2 March 2010
ISBN-10 : 0374298912 | ISBN-13: 9780374298913

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