The Fun Parts The Fun Parts

The Fun Parts

Stories

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
March 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
611.7
KB

Customer Reviews

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The fun parts

If you happen to be a man of such and such of age... If you went to high school and perhaps played a sport while there... If you maybe kissed a pretty girl... If you've ever bullied or been bullied... If you're alive now!!! These words will speak to you profoundly!!!!! BRILLIANT!!!

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