Venus Drive - Brossura

Lipsyte, Sam

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312429606 ISBN 13: 9780312429607

Casa editrice: Picador, 2010

Riassunto

An intense, mordantly funny collection of short fiction from the author of Home Land and The Ask.

A man with an "old soul" finds himself at a Times Square peep show, looking for more than just a little action. A young man goes into some serious regression after finding his deceased mother's stash of morphine. A group of summer-camp sadists return to the scene of the crime. Sam Lipsyte's brutally funny narratives tread morally ambiguous terrain, where desperate characters stumble over hope, or sometimes merely stumble. Written with ferocious wit and surprising empathy, Venus Drive is a potent collection of stories from "a wickedly gifted writer" (Robert Stone).

The Picador paperback edition includes an excerpt from The Ask.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Sam Lipsyte was born in 1968. He has also written The Subject Steve and Home Land, winner of The Believer book award. He lives in Astoria, Queens.

Product Description:

From the peep palaces of Times Square to the cubicles of corporate America, Lipsyte's stories wander a dark, comic road full of need and regret. His damaged, searching narrators deliver their reports of addiction, lust, loneliness, and grief with a sly lyricism and eerie spareness that somehow redeem them.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312429606
• ISBN 13: 9780312429607
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176