The Subject Steve

Type

Book

Authors

Sam Lipsyte

ISBN 10

0312429975

ISBN 13

9780312429973

Tags

Satire, United States, Literary

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. - from Amzon

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