The Subject Steve: A Novel: Books: Sam Lipsyte Editorial Review by Travis Elborough

Wordplay rather than characterization is Lipsyte’s métier and his language positively fizzes with invention. The characters here don’t so much converse as exchange obtuse epigrammatic non sequiturs and indulge in linguistic quips. This should, of course, be utterly infuriating, but it isn’t. The dialogue, like the rest of this savage, absurdist take on contemporary life (and more precisely our horror of death), is startlingly acute