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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.

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"I laughed out loud — and I never laugh out loud." Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke

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"Falls somewhere between Chuck Palahniuk and George Saunders. Let's throw Vonnegut in there as an influence too. And Pynchon...This is Satire with a capital S....An enormously likable first novel." Esquire

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"A spot-on DeLillo-like excavation of our consuming consumer culture, and the ultimate fear — the fear of death — that lurks behind it." San Francisco Chronicle
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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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ISBN:
9780312429973
Author:
Lipsyte, Sam
Publisher:
Picador USA
Subject:
Literary
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Literature-A to Z
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
20110331
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TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.50 in
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Product details 256 pages Picador - English 9780312429973 Reviews:
"Review" by , "I laughed out loud — and I never laugh out loud."
"Review" by , "Falls somewhere between Chuck Palahniuk and George Saunders. Let's throw Vonnegut in there as an influence too. And Pynchon...This is Satire with a capital S....An enormously likable first novel."
"Review" by , "A spot-on DeLillo-like excavation of our consuming consumer culture, and the ultimate fear — the fear of death — that lurks behind it."
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