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The ask / Sam Lipsyte

By:

Lipsyte, Sam, , 1968-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 296 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780374298913

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Satire

DDC classification:

FIC LIP

LOC classification:

PS3562.I648 A85 2010

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC LIP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		000155

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.

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