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Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Fiction
Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia and proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA. Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's body and the only place he feels at home is New York; he ...Show more
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Fiction
Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia and proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA. Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's body and the only place he feels at home is New York; he ...Show more
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Fiction
"Spectacular."--NPR - "Uproariously funny."--The Boston Globe - "An artistic triumph."--San Francisco Chronicle - "A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced."--The Washington Post - "Shteyngart's best book."--The Seattle Times The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns ...Show more
Lake Success - A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Fiction
"Spectacular."--NPR * "Uproariously funny."--The Boston Globe * "An artistic triumph."--San Francisco Chronicle * "A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced."--The Washington Post * "Shteyngart's best book."--The Seattle Times The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story return ...Show more
Lake Success - A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Fiction
The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times. "Gary Shteyngart has held up a mirror to American culture that is so accurate, and so devastating, that it makes you want to break the mirror right over your own head. ...Show more
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Biography
Gary Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka-'Little Failure'-which she applied to her son. With love. Most ...Show more
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Biography
Gary Shteyngart's parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka - 'Little Failure' - which she applied to her son. With love. Mostly. A candid and p ...Show more
Little Failure - A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Biography
Little Failure is Gary Shteyngart's bestselling and very funny memoir. It is a New York Times Bestseller. In 1979 seven-year-old Gary Shteyngart and his parents left the Soviet Union for the consumerist paradise of America. As good Russian Jews, Gary's parents were determined that he make something of h ...Show more
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Fiction
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation - a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls 'one of his generation's most original writers'. 'A masterpi ...Show more
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Fiction
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls 'one of his generation's most original writers'. 'A masterpiec ...Show more
Our Country Friends: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
Category: Fiction
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls "one of his generation's most original writers.""A masterpiece ...Show more