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New American Stories     
Book title: New American Stories
Authors: Sayrafiezadeh Saïd, Lee Rebecca, Ball Jesse, Eisenberg Deborah, Doerr Anthony, Li Yiyun, Saunders George, Bulawayo NoViolet, McHugh Maureen, Lipsyte Sam, Davis Lydia, Antrim Donald, Smith Zadie, Johnson Denis, Williams Joy, Schutt Christine, DeLillo Don, Svalina Mathias, Corin Lucy, Gaitskill Mary, Tower Wells, Glaser Rachel, Lin Tao, Curtis Rebecca, Coover Robert, Yu Charles, Unferth Deb, Coma-Thompson Kyle, Galchen Rivka, Pollock Donald, Link Kelly, Watkins Claire
Genres: Современная русская и зарубежная проза
File: fb2-576000-578999.zip/576869.fb2
File size: 1.4 MB
Language: Английский
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Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America. In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story. In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom

The Ask     
Book title: The Ask
Authors: Lipsyte Sam
Genres: Современная русская и зарубежная проза
File: fb2-521000-526999.zip/524927.fb2
File size: 526.9 KB
Language: Английский
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Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has “not been developing”: after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is offered one last chance by his former employer: he must reel in a potential donor — a major “ask”—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. Probing many themes— or, perhaps, anxieties — including 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 burst of genius by a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often the funniest ones

The Fun Parts     
Book title: The Fun Parts
Authors: Lipsyte Sam
Genres: Современная русская и зарубежная проза
File: fb2-521000-526999.zip/524930.fb2
File size: 365.5 KB
Language: Английский
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A hilarious collection of stories from the writer The New York Times called “the novelist of his generation”. Returning to the form in which he began, Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestseller The Ask, offers up The Fun Parts, a book of bold, hilarious, and deeply felt fiction. A boy eats his way to self-discovery while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. Meanwhile, 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 stories, some first published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, or Playboy, that unfold in Lipsyte’s richly imagined world. Other tales feature a grizzled and possibly deranged male birth doula, a doomsday hustler about to face the multi-universal truth of “the real-ass jumbo,” and a tawdry glimpse of the northern New Jersey high school shot-putting circuit, circa 1986. Combining both the tragicomic dazzle of his beloved novels and the compressed vitality of his classic debut collection, The Fun Parts is Lipsyte at his best — an exploration of new voices and vistas from a writer Time magazine has said “everyone should read.”

The Subject Steve     
Book title: The Subject Steve
Authors: Lipsyte Sam
Genres: Современная русская и зарубежная проза
File: fb2-521000-526999.zip/524928.fb2
File size: 361.0 KB
Language: Английский
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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

Venus Drive     
Book title: Venus Drive
Authors: Lipsyte Sam
Genres: Современная русская и зарубежная проза
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Language: Английский
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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."

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