Description
Meet Steve (not his real name), a Special Case, in truth a Terminal Case, and the eponymous antihero of Sam Lipsyte's first novel. Steve has been informed by two doctors that he is dying of a condition of unquestioned fatality, with no discernible physical cause. Eager for fame, and to brand the new plague, they dub it Goldfarb-Blackstone Preparatory Extinction Syndrome, or PREXIS for short. Turns out, though, Steve's just dying of boredom. The Subject Steve is a dazzling debut--by turns manic, ebullient, and exquisitely deadpan--Sam Lipsyte is in company with the master American satirists.
Author: Sam Lipsyte
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780312429973
ISBN10: 0312429975
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Satire
- Fiction | World Literature | American | 21st Century
About the Author
SAM LIPSYTE was born in 1968. He is the author of the story collection Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and three novels: The Ask, The Subject Steve and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He lives in New York.
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