Sam Lipsyte - Hark — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

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Friday, January 18, 2019 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Lipsyte’s fourth novel is a wickedly funny social satire that looks closely at questions of meaning, hope, and how we can keep our balance in a world that seems seriously askew. His protagonist is Hark Morner, a failed comic who decides that what he needs—and possibly what everyone needs—is a little focus. Tossing together stray bits of mindfulness, mythology, history, and yoga, he comes up with a new practice called Mental Archery. It’s an instant hit. But Hark isn’t ready to be everyone’s guru, nor does he want to go along with his followers’ plans to commercialize the program. But just as he attempts to distance himself from the movement he created, circumstances call him back. The author of The Ask, The Subject Steve, and Home Land, Lipsyte brilliantly deploys absurdism to make us take a good look at ourselves.

 

Politics and Prose at Union Market
1270 5th Street NE
Washington, DC 20008
Union Market
Fiction & Poetry
Hark By Sam Lipsyte Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781501146060
Availability: Special Order—Subject to Availability
Published: Simon & Schuster - January 15th, 2019

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