According to publishing copy from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Ask by Sam Lipsyte will cover themes such as «work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row and the eroticization of chicken wire.» (bookpage.com)
Probing many themes — or, perhaps, anxieties — including work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, The Ask is a burst of genius by a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often... (bookbrowse.com)
Inspired by the eroticization and fetishization of large hairy men within the gay community, these works abstract and celebrate an ideal of beauty quite outside of the mainstream. (chriskomater.com)