The Subject Steve
Author | : Sam Lipsyte |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 1429968508 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781429968508 |
Rating | : 4/5 (508 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Subject Steve written by Sam Lipsyte and published by Picador. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.