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The Fun Parts

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Author: Sam Lipsyte

The Fun Parts

The Fun Parts

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About This Book

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)....

Page Count
240
On Sale
03/05/2013

Book Details

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.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9781466836051

In The News

“Lipsyte . . . may be the most consistently funny fiction writer working today. Satire is second nature to him.” —Bryan Walsh, TIME

“[Lipsyte] can't be matched . . . Read [The Fun Parts] with The Ask if you really want to know how a mordant jokester with a madman's imagination became a literary rock star.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“[Lipsyte] is producing some of the purest social satire written today.” —Matthew Love, Time Out New York

“Lipsyte expertly works the line between hilarity and pathos.” —Ben Fountain, The New York Times Book Review

“In this second story collection, fierce satire mingles with warmth and pathos as Lipsyte (The Ask) showcases his knack for stylistic variety and tangles with the thorny human experiences of moving beyond one's past or shedding one's personal baggage . . . Lipsyte's biting humor suffuses the collection, but it's his ability to control the relative darkness of each moment that makes the stories so engrossing.” —Publishers' Weekly (starred review)

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The Fun Parts

The Fun Parts

$11.99

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