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A hilarious assortment of tales from the writer The New York Times named “the novelist of his generation”Returning for the type by which he started, Sam Lipsyte, composer of the New York Times best-seller The Ask, provides up The Enjoyable Components, a guide of daring, entertaining, and profoundly experienced fiction. A child takes his method to self-development while another should fight the truth-brandishing beast preying on his dream world. Meanwhile, an exercise teacher, the child of a Holocaust survivor, makes the absolute most surprising jump possible to truly save her soul. These are simply a number of the testimonies, some first printed in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, or Playboy, that occur in Lipsyte’s highly thought world.     Additional reports have a grizzled and perhaps deranged male birth doula, a doomsday hustler going to encounter the multiple-common reality of “the actual-butt fat,” and a tawdry peek of the northern New Jersey senior school shot-placing signal, circa 1986. Mixing both charm of his precious books and the vitality of his classic debut series, The Enjoyable Parts is Lipsyte at his best—a pursuit of fresh views and sounds from the writer Time newspaper has stated “everyone must read.”