· 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). Sam Lipsyte’s work may be grouped into the minimalist genre, but that doesn’t mean there’s anything subverted about the content of his new collection Venus Drive. 9 rows · Venus Drive: Stories PDF book by Sam Lipsyte Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF, azw3 /5.
Sam Lipsyte was born in He is the author of the story collection Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five book of its year by the Village Voice Supplement) and the novels The Subject of Steve and Home Land, winner of the Believer Book Award. Lipsyte teaches at Columbia Universitys School of The Arts and is a Guggenheim Fellow. VENUS DRIVE By Sam Lipsyte. Open City, paper, $ esterday's thought was how did I get here, 31, 32, just this huge knot of unknowing and losing my hair,'' a telemarketer in one of Sam Lipsyte's stories laments before dialing to determine a stranger's satisfaction with a local salad bar. Lipsyte's first book, a collection of stories titled. Debut sheaf of short stories by a minimalist in the style of Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish, master of the preshrunk sentence. Lipsyte no doubt will demonstrate greater range in years to come, but at the moment he shows off the prose equivalent of three chords on a one-string guitar#;a feat of some kind. He has no qualms about hanging the reader up on a sentence whose sense has gone south.
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. Sam Lipsyte was born in He is the author of the story collection Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five book of its year by the Village Voice Supplement) and the novels The Subject of Steve and Home Land, winner of the Believer Book Award. Lipsyte teaches at Columbia Universitys School of The Arts and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Sam Lipsyte was born in He is the author of the story collections Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and The Fun Parts 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 is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.
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