The Subject Steve

`Sam 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' and `The Virgin Suicides'

`An all-American tale made up of smart deliveries and cracking ideas...reminiscent of Douglas Coupland or A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius .' Observer

`I laughed out loud - and I never laugh out loud...' Chuck Palahniuk, author of `Fight Club'

`An original voice: smart, savvy...intensely funny.' TLS

`The best thing since George Saunders last broke cover...Kind of Beckett meets Six Feet Under , comedy doesn't come much blacker than this.' Uncut

`Rowdy, shocking and lyrical...very funny.' New Yorker

`Dark, lancing humour, first-rate satire and writing that dares to be bold and edgy.' San Francisco Chronicle

`Laugh-out-loud funny...By turns strange, disturbing and hilarious.' Irish Independent

Sam Lipsyte is the author of `Venus Drive', a collection of short stories, and two novels, `The Subject Steve' and `Home Land'. His work has appeared in the New York Times and the Quarterly. He was born in 1968, and got married in 2003.