The Ask - Couverture souple

Lipsyte, Sam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312680635 ISBN 13 : 9780312680633

Editeur : Picador USA, 2011

Synopsis

The Ask Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, university fundraiser Milo Burke is offered one last chance by his former employer: He must reel in a potential donor--a major ask--who turns out to be Milo's sinister college classmate. And the give won't come cheap. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'One of the funniest and most straight-out brilliant novels of the last few years'
Guardian

'Funny, smart and mean'
David Nicholls, author of One Day (picked The Ask as one of his BOOKS OF THE YEAR in The Times)

'Hysterically funny . . . amazing . . . it affords breathtaking views of the social landscape of "late capitalism"'
Observer

'that rare thing . . . a proper comic novel'
The Times

'Incandescently written . . . you have to go back to Joseph Heller in his prime to find writing this energised'
Sunday Times

'Zinging . . . The Ask may not be the novel America wanted to get, but clearly it's the one it has been asking for . . . If this is reminiscent of anything it's Martin Amis at his 1980s apogee'
Guardian

'Made me snort out laughing on the Tube in a really embarrassing way . . . Milo is possibly the smartest satirical character you'll come across'
Literary Review

'Oh, how I laughed at this book'
David Sedaris

'No novel caught the zeitgeist better . . . It cuts to the sad heart of our age'
Evening Standard (picked as a BOOK OF THE YEAR)

'Read Lipsyte and rejoice'
New York Times

'One of the novelists whose voice will define the next decade'
Independent (where The Ask was picked as a BOOK OF THE YEAR)

'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 Magazine

'A masterpiece . . . Everything about it is timely and penetrating and a crack-like buzz to read'
Dazed and Confused

'So funny you might lose an eye'
Vanity Fair

'Screamingly funny'
Geoff Dyer

'I laughed out loud -- and I never laugh out loud'
Chuck Palahniuk

'Lipsyte is a gifted stylist, precise, original, devious, and very funny'
Jeffrey Eugenides

'Scabrously, deliriously funny . . . Lipsyte's prose arrows fly with gloriously weird spin, tracing punch-drunk curlicues before hitting their marks or landing in some nearby alternate universe'
New York Review of Books --...

Présentation de l'éditeur

Milo Burke -- husband to a 'touched-out' wife, father to a three-year-old son, fund-raising officer at a third-tier university -- has just joined the swelling ranks of the unemployed. As he grasps after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is contacted by Purdy Stuart, a wealthy, one-time university friend with a sinister agenda. It is the start of a hilarious and harrowing odyssey through several degrees of peculiarly 21st-century hell -- a journey recorded by Milo with the caustic eloquence that is his only means of defence.
Hailed as the first great 'post-Iraq' novel, The Ask has been a critical sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a dazzlingly entertaining read that anatomises our crisis-ridden times with equal part ferocity and compassion.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador USA
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0312680635
• ISBN 13: 9780312680633
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320