The Fun Parts (Signed First Edition)

Sam Lipsyte

ISBN 10: 0374298904 / ISBN 13: 9780374298906

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013

About this Item

New York: FSG (2013). First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy. (Without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect.) Comes with mylar dust jacket cover (not clipped, of course). Shipped in well padded box. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign, no inscriptions. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated by him in April 2013 in NYC. You cannot find a better copy.

Seller Inventory # 02-2013-65

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fun Parts (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374298904
• ISBN 13: 9780374298906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A hilarious collection of stories from the writer The New York Times called "the novelist of his generation"

Returning to the form in which he began, Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestseller The Ask, offers up The Fun Parts, a book of bold, hilarious, and deeply felt fiction. A boy eats his way to self-discovery while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. Meanwhile, an aerobics instructor, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, makes the most shocking leap imaginable to save her soul. These are just a few of the stories, some first published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, or Playboy, that unfold in Lipsyte's richly imagined world.
Other tales feature a grizzled and possibly deranged male birth doula, a doomsday hustler about to face the multi-universal truth of "the real-ass jumbo," and a tawdry glimpse of the northern New Jersey high school shot-putting circuit, circa 1986. Combining both the tragicomic dazzle of his beloved novels and the compressed vitality of his classic debut collection, The Fun Parts is Lipsyte at his best―an exploration of new voices and vistas from a writer Time magazine has said "everyone should read."

About the Author

Sam Lipsyte is the author of Venus Drive, The Subject Steve, Home Land, and The Ask, the latter two New York Times Notable Books, and, most recently, The Fun Parts. He won the first annual Believer Book Award and was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow. He teaches writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts.