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Home Land

(2004)
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'Would you like to go out with me sometime?'
'Where do you want to go?'
'My apartment?'
'That's not really going out.'
'For you it would be...'


Meet the appalling, somewhat bitter and yet entirely loveable Lewis Miner, class of '89, who by his own admission 'did not pan out'.

The Eastern Valley High School alumni newsletter, Catamount Notes, is bursting with tales of success: former students include a bankable politician and a famous baseball star, not to mention a major label recording artist. And then there is Lewis Miner, the only former student not to have been invited to tell his story to Catamount Notes. It's time for an update. And it's time to make sense of the horror which the Togethering, Eastern Valley's doomed class reunion, somehow became...


Genre: General Fiction

Praise for this book

"Sam Lipsyte is original, devious, and very funny." - Jeffrey Eugenides

"I laughed out loud -- and I never laugh out loud." - Chuck Palahniuk

"Genius. As eloquent and delirious a rant I've heard since Henry Miller." - Gary Shteyngart


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