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Meet Steve (not his real name), a Special Case, in truth a Terminal Case, and the eponymous antihero of Sam Lipsyte's first novel. Steve has been informed by two doctors that he is dying of a condition of unquestioned fatality, with no discernible physical cause. Eager for fame, and to brand the new plague, they dub it Goldfarb-Blackstone Preparatory Extinction Syndrome, or PREXIS for short. Turns out, though, Steve's just dying of boredom. The Subject Steve is a dazzling debut-by turns manic, ebullient, and exquisitely deadpan-Sam Lipsyte is in company with the master American satirists.
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"I laughed out loud--and I never laugh out loud."
Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke
"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
"Sam Lipsyte [is] scabrously, deliriously, piss-yourself funny."
Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Review of Books