The ask
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The ask
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The work The ask represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Culver-Union Township Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Label
- The ask
- Statement of responsibility
- Sam Lipsyte
- Subject
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- trueArtists
- trueArts fund raising
- trueBenefactors
- trueClassism
- College administrators -- Fiction
- College benefactors -- Fiction
- Educational fund raising -- Fiction
- trueExpectation (Psychology)
- trueFailure (Psychology)
- trueFamily relationships
- Large type books
- trueMarriage
- trueSatirical fiction
- Satirical literature
- trueUniversities and colleges -- Administration
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Milo Burke--husband, father, development officer at a third-tier university--has just joined the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is relieved to get another chance from his former boss. All he has to do it reel in a potential donor--a major "ask"--who, mysteriously, has requested Milo's involvement
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2010.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2010
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3562.I648
- LC item number
- A85 2010
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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