{"product_id":"the-fun-parts-stories-by-sam-lipsyte","title":"The Fun Parts: Stories by Sam Lipsyte","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReturning to the form in which he began, Sam Lipsyte, author of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e bestseller \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ask\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, offers up \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Fun Parts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, that unfold in Lipsyte's richly imagined world.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The Fun Parts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis Lipsyte at his best―an exploration of new voices and vistas from a writer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emagazine has said \"everyone should read.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55896324604072,"sku":"alg1787304587747","price":10.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/3246\/4808\/files\/the-fun-parts-stories-by-sam-lipsyte_1.jpg?v=1787304593","url":"https:\/\/www.greenvalleycart.shop\/products\/the-fun-parts-stories-by-sam-lipsyte","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}