The Ask

The Ask
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781429931724
ISBN-13 : 1429931728
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Book Synopsis The Ask by : Sam Lipsyte

Download or read book The Ask written by Sam Lipsyte and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-02-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dark comic novel by the author of Home Land, a college development officer’s last chance to keep his job comes at a high cost. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Milo Burke—husband, father, development officer at a third-tier university—has just joined the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after off jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is relieved to get another chance from his former boss. All he has to do is reel in a potential donor who, mysteriously, has requested Milo’s involvement. But it turns out that the ask is Milo’s sinister college classmate Purdy Stuart. And the “give” won’t come cheap. Exploring such themes as work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, The Ask is a hilarious tour de force from a writer who has already shown that the deepest fictions are often the funniest.


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