The ask
by Lipsyte, Sam
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. A…
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- Full title :The ask / Sam Lipsyte.
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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... -- from publisher's website
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- Publication Date:2010.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:296 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780374298913, 0374298912
- oclc:ocn428895712
- LC Classification:PS3562.I648
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
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