Venus Drive

An intense, mordantly funny collection of short fiction from Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land and The Ask . The Picador paperback edition includes an excerpt from The Ask . A man with an "old soul" finds himself at a Times Square peep show, looking for more than just a little action. A young man goes into some serious regression after finding his deceased mother's stash of morphine. A group of summer-camp sadists return to the scene of the crime. Lipsyte's brutally funny narratives tread morally