The Subject Steve: A Novel
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| Management number | 237164553 | Release Date | 2026/07/10 | List Price | US$4.20 | Model Number | 237164553 | ||
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The dazzling debut novel from the author of The Ask and Home Land, Sam Lipsyte's The Subject Steve is by turns manic, ebullient, and exquisitely deadpan—and belongs in the company with the master American satirists.Meet Steve (not his real name), a Special Case, in truth, a Terminal Case, and the eponymous antihero of 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. Read more
| ASIN | B004H1TQEY |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-1429968508 |
| Edition | First |
| Language | English |
| File size | 2.3 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 258 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | March 1, 2011 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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