Sam Lipsyte: Home Land

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Home Land

Welcome to the most twisted high-school reunion imaginable, from a rising star of American satire. 'Sam Lipsyte is a gifted stylist, precise, original, devious, and very funny' (Jeffrey Eugenides, author of Middlesex)'It's confession time, fellow alumni. Ever since Principal Fontana found me and commenced to bless my mail slot, monthly, with the Eastern Valley High School Alumni Newsletter,... (read more)

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“The funniest novels I have ever read are *A Confederacy of Dunces* (by John Kennedy Toole), *Lucky Jim* (by Kingsley Amis), and *Portnoy's Complaint* (by Phillip Roth). When I started *Home Land* I thought for a bit that it would join the list, but about one fourth way through I could see that this book probably wasn't going to make the "all time funniest" list, although the book is hilarious and worth reading.

Lipsyte's ranting narrator, Lewis Miner, is one funny guy:

"Each...”

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