The Fun Parts Stories |
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Author:
| Lipsyte, Sam |
ISBN: | 978-1-4668-3605-1 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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The Fun Parts is Sam Lipsyte at his very best--a far-ranging exploration of new voices and vistas from "the most consistently funny fiction writer working today" (Time). A boy eats his way to self-discovery, while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. Elsewhere, 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...
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The Fun Parts is Sam Lipsyte at his very best--a far-ranging exploration of new voices and vistas from "the most consistently funny fiction writer working today" (Time).
A boy eats his way to self-discovery, while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. Elsewhere, 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 characters you'll encounter in Sam Lipsyte's richly imagined world.
Featuring a grizzled and possibly deranged male doula, a doomsday hustler who must face the multi-universal truth of "the real-ass jumbo," and a tawdry glimpse of a high school shot-putting circuit in northern New Jersey, circa 1986, Lipsyte's short stories combine the tragicomic brilliance of his beloved novels with the compressed vitality of Venus Drive.