Full name: The Fun Parts: Stories

Author: Sam Lipsyte Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780374298906 0374298904

A boy eats his way to self-discovery, while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. Elsewhere, 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 characters you'll encounter in Sam Lipsyte's richly imagined world. Featuring a grizzled and possibly deranged male doula, a doomsday hustler who must face the multi-universal truth of "the real-ass jumbo," and a tawdry glimpse of a high school shot-putting circuit in northern New Jersey, circa 1986, Lipsyte's short stories combine the tragicomic brilliance of his beloved novels with the compressed vitality of Venus Drive. The Fun Parts is Lipsyte at his very best-a far-ranging exploration of new voices and vistas from "the most consistently funny fiction writer working today" (Time). Similar books: Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt Barking Man by Madison Smartt Bell The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Tumble Home by Amy Hempel Never Trust A Rabbit by Jeremy Dyson The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy Airships by Barry Hannah In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus Escapes by Joy Williams Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson Jigs & Reels by Joanne Harris The Night In Question by Tobias Wolff Nine Inches by Tom Perrotta A Better Angel by Chris Adrian Venus Drive by Sam Lipsyte Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace An Actor's Life by Duncan Whitehead Selected Stories by Alice Munro