The Ask
- 作者:Lipsyte,Sam
- 出版社:St Martins Pr
- 出版日期:2011-03-01
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0312680635
- ISBN13:9780312680633
- 裝訂:平裝 / 14 x 21 x 1.9 cm / 普通級
A New York Times Bestseller
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 odd 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. 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.