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A Novel
出版Macmillan + ORM, 2010-02-27
主題Fiction / LiteraryFiction / SatireFiction / Humorous / Black Humor
ISBN14299317289781429931724
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gGhrCRWLEesC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this dark comic novel by the author of Home Land, a college development officer’s last chance to keep his job comes at a high cost.

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

Milo Burke—husband, father, development officer at a third-tier university—has just joined the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after off jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is relieved to get another chance from his former boss. All he has to do is reel in a potential donor who, mysteriously, has requested Milo’s involvement. But it turns out that the ask is Milo’s sinister college classmate Purdy Stuart. And the “give” won’t come cheap.

Exploring such themes as work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, The Ask is a hilarious tour de force from a writer who has already shown that the deepest fictions are often the funniest.