"I laughed out loud--and I never laugh out loud." --Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke

"Sam Lipsyte [is] scabrously, deliriously, piss-yourself funny." --Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Review of Books

"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

"Falls somewhere between Chuck Palahniuk and George Saunders. Let's throw Vonnegut in there as an influence too. And Pynchon...This is Satire with a capital S....An enormously likable first novel. " --Esquire

"A spot-on DeLillo-like excavation of our consuming consumer culture, and the ultimate fear---the fear of death---that lurks behind it. " --San Francisco Chronicle