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1) Hark: a novel

Author

Lipsyte, Sam

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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Hark Morner, the unwitting guru behind "Mental Archery"--a combination of mindfulness, mythology, fake history, yoga, and archery--is set to be raised to near-messiah status, a role for which he is woefully underprepared.

2) No one left to come looking for you: a novel

Author

Lipsyte, Sam

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

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"Manhattan's East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country. One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band's biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack's prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack's search for his buddy uncovers...

3) Venus Drive: stories

Author

Lipsyte, Sam

Publisher

Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

2010.

Language

English

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"A man with an "old soul" finds himself at a Times Square peep show, looking for more than just a little action. A young man goes into some serious regression after finding his deceased mother's stash of morphine. A group of summer-camp sadists return to the scene of the crime. Lipsyte's brutally funny narratives tread morally ambiguous terrain, where desperate characters stumble over hope, or sometimes merely stumble."--