The Fun Parts: Stories

The Fun Parts: Stories

<p><b>A hilarious collection of stories from the writer <i>The New York Times </i>called "the novelist of his generation"</b></p><p>Returning to the form in which he began, Sam Lipsyte, author of the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>The Ask</i>, offers up <i>The Fun Parts</i>, 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 <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Paris Review</i>, or <i>Playboy</i>, that unfold in Lipsyte's richly imagined world.<br /> 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,<i> The Fun Parts </i>is Lipsyte at his best—an exploration of new voices and vistas from a writer <i>Time </i>magazine has said "everyone should read."</p>