"I laughed out loud–and I never laugh out loud." –Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke
"Sam Lipsyte [is] scabrously, deliriously, piss-yourself funny." –
Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Review of Books "Lipsyte is a gifted stylist, precise, original, devious, and very funny. In a time when the language of most novels is dead on arrival, this book, about a dying man, is startlingly alive." –
Jeffrey Eugenides, author of Middlesex "Falls somewhere between Chuck Palahniuk and George Saunders. Let's throw Vonnegut in there as an influence too. And Pynchon...This is Satire with a capital S....An enormously likable first novel. " –
Esquire "A spot-on DeLillo-like excavation of our consuming consumer culture, and the ultimate fear–-the fear of death–-that lurks behind it. " –
San Francisco Chronicle