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The Ask
''The Ask'' is a novel by Sam Lipsyte, published by Macmillan Publishers (United States), Macmillan in 2010 (). Summary Per Michael K. Walonen, the novel: focuses on the American university, long seen as a bastion of resistance or at least indifference to the world of money, that has now become enmeshed in the world of finance. ''The Ask'' narrates the story of middle-aged schlemiel Milo Burke, a solicitor of donations in the development office of the third-rate college he dubs ‘the Mediocre University at New York City’. Early in the text, Milo is fired for impugning the artistic talent of a self-entitled daughter of a wealthy donor to the university, and for having been accused of sexual harassment by Horace, an ambitious young male office temp worker who later claims the complaint was meant in jest. The bulk of the rest of the narrative focuses on Milo’s steady estrangement from his wife Maura and his attempt to get his job back through soliciting a large donation from Pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ask
''The Ask'' is a novel by Sam Lipsyte, published by Macmillan Publishers (United States), Macmillan in 2010 (). Summary Per Michael K. Walonen, the novel: focuses on the American university, long seen as a bastion of resistance or at least indifference to the world of money, that has now become enmeshed in the world of finance. ''The Ask'' narrates the story of middle-aged schlemiel Milo Burke, a solicitor of donations in the development office of the third-rate college he dubs ‘the Mediocre University at New York City’. Early in the text, Milo is fired for impugning the artistic talent of a self-entitled daughter of a wealthy donor to the university, and for having been accused of sexual harassment by Horace, an ambitious young male office temp worker who later claims the complaint was meant in jest. The bulk of the rest of the narrative focuses on Milo’s steady estrangement from his wife Maura and his attempt to get his job back through soliciting a large donation from Pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte (born 1968) is an American novelist and short story writer. Life The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey, where he attended Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest. He attended Brown University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1990. At Brown, Lipsyte lived with Steven Johnson. Lipsyte was an editor at the webzine ''FEED.'' His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in ''The Quarterly'', The New Yorker, ''Harper's'', ''Noon'', ''Tin House'', ''Open City'', ''N+1'', ''Slate'', ''McSweeney's'', ''Esquire'', ''GQ'', ''Bookforum'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Los Angeles Times'', ''Nouvelle Revue Française'', ''The Paris Review'', This Land', and ''Playboy'', among other places. Lipsyte's work is characterized by its verbal acumen and black humor. His books have been translated into several languages, including French, Russian, Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macmillan Publishers (United States)
Macmillan Inc. is a defunct American book publishing company. Originally established as the American division of the British Macmillan Publishers, the two were later separated and acquired by other companies, with the remnants of the original American division of Macmillan present in McGraw-Hill Education's Macmillan/McGraw-Hill textbooks, Gale's Macmillan Reference USA division, and some trade imprints of Simon & Schuster that were transferred when both companies were owned by Paramount Communications. The German publisher Holtzbrinck, which bought the British Macmillan in 1999, purchased US rights to the Macmillan name in 2001 and rebranded its American division with it in 2007. History Brett family George Edward Brett opened the first Macmillan office in the United States in 1869 and Macmillan sold its U.S. operations to the Brett family, George Platt Brett Sr. and George Platt Brett Jr. in 1896, resulting in the creation of an American company, Macmillan Publishing. Even wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
