The Subject Steve - Couverture souple

Lipsyte, Sam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312429975 ISBN 13 : 9780312429973

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2011

Synopsis

The dazzling debut novel from the author of The Ask and Home Land, Sam Lipsyte's The Subject Steve is by turns manic, ebullient, and exquisitely deadpan--and belongs in the company with the master American satirists.

Meet Steve (not his real name), a Special Case, in truth, a Terminal Case, and the eponymous antihero of Lipsyte's first novel. Steve has been informed by two doctors that he is dying of a condition of unquestioned fatality, with no discernible physical cause. Eager for fame, and to brand the new plague, they dub it Goldfarb-Blackstone Preparatory Extinction Syndrome, or PREXIS for short. Turns out, though, Steve's just dying of boredom.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sam Lipsyte was born in 1968. He is the author of the story collections Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and The Fun Parts and several novels, including The Ask, The Subject Steve and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312429975
• ISBN 13: 9780312429973
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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