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Praise for THE SUBJECT STEVE: 'Sam Lipsyte is a wickedly gifted writer.' Robert Stone"Sam Lipsyte is a gifted stylist, precise, original, devious, and very funny. In a time when the language of most novels is dead on arrival, this book, about a dying man, is startlingly alive." Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides"I laughed out loud -- and I never laugh out loud. You'll want to rest up before reading this one. And after. Thank you, Sam." Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club'A brilliant novel, in every conceivable way' Toby Litt 'An original voice: smart, savvy... intensely funny' TLS'The best thing since George Saunders last broke cover... Kind of Beckett meets Six Feet Under, comedy doesn't come much blacker than this.' Uncut'Rowdy, shocking and lyrical... very funny' New Yorker'Lipsyte is certainly not without talent' Norman Mailer'Sam Lipsyte can get blood out of a stone... I gripped this book so hard my knuckles turned white.' Edmund White
More marijuana moonbeams from reefer-brained Lipsyte (The Subject Steve, 2001, etc.). While not quite as densely smacked as William S. Burroughs's druggy vaudeville Naked Lunch, this doesn't fall all that short. Many who enter will soon find themselves tripping over phrases and sentences so dishearteningly opaque that deconstructing the narrator's glancing shots at originality will become too tiring to bear. The story, as it plods by, tells of small-town New Jerseyite Lewis Miner while he considers what really happened to his fellow alums from Eastern Valley High School, as opposed to what the Catamount Notes alumni journal claims. Going by Lewis, they're all losers, even those who've gone on to professional accomplishment or millions. Lewis himself is the biggest loser of all: he hasn't a sober cell in his body and admits to masturbating obsessively. The novel works toward the "Togethering," a kind of alumni dance that becomes a marathon of loudmouthing, capped by a dreadful speech Lewis addresses to the assembled. Excerpt: "I should go back to school and learn the brain. I know, I couldn't even get through Mrs. Strobe's Bio II, but still, I bet they have new machines now, stud-finders for the walls of that gooey maze. As a brain man I'd ride from town to town, bury all the bad stuff . . . ." Spacey chuckles. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Robert Stone
'Sam Lipsyte is a wickedly gifted writer.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Praise for THE SUBJECT STEVE: 'Sam Lipsyte is a wickedly gifted writer.' Robert Stone"Sam Lipsyte is a gifted stylist, precise, original, devious, and very funny. In a time when the language of most novels is dead on arrival, this book, about a dying man, is startlingly alive." Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides"I laughed out loud -- and I never laugh out loud. You'll want to rest up before reading this one. And after. Thank you, Sam." Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club'A brilliant novel, in every conceivable way' Toby Litt 'An original voice: smart, savvy... intensely funny' TLS'The best thing since George Saunders last broke cover... Kind of Beckett meets Six Feet Under, comedy doesn't come much blacker than this.' Uncut'Rowdy, shocking and lyrical... very funny' New Yorker'Lipsyte is certainly not without talent' Norman Mailer'Sam Lipsyte can get blood out of a stone... I gripped this book so hard my knuckles turned white.' Edmund White
More marijuana moonbeams from reefer-brained Lipsyte (The Subject Steve, 2001, etc.). While not quite as densely smacked as William S. Burroughs's druggy vaudeville Naked Lunch, this doesn't fall all that short. Many who enter will soon find themselves tripping over phrases and sentences so dishearteningly opaque that deconstructing the narrator's glancing shots at originality will become too tiring to bear. The story, as it plods by, tells of small-town New Jerseyite Lewis Miner while he considers what really happened to his fellow alums from Eastern Valley High School, as opposed to what the Catamount Notes alumni journal claims. Going by Lewis, they're all losers, even those who've gone on to professional accomplishment or millions. Lewis himself is the biggest loser of all: he hasn't a sober cell in his body and admits to masturbating obsessively. The novel works toward the "Togethering," a kind of alumni dance that becomes a marathon of loudmouthing, capped by a dreadful speech Lewis addresses to the assembled. Excerpt: "I should go back to school and learn the brain. I know, I couldn't even get through Mrs. Strobe's Bio II, but still, I bet they have new machines now, stud-finders for the walls of that gooey maze. As a brain man I'd ride from town to town, bury all the bad stuff . . . ." Spacey chuckles. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Robert Stone
'Sam Lipsyte is a wickedly gifted writer.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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