Lake Success
Autor Gary Shteyngarten Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2019
'Gary Shteyngart hears America perfectly; its fatuity, its poignant lament, its boisterous self-loathing. Its heartbeat. Reading him sometimes makes me want to scream - with recognition and withpure hilarity'- Richard Ford
A riotously satirical road trip through modern America from the brilliant author ofSuper Sad True LoveStoryandAbsurdistan
Barry Cohen, master of the universe, has just had a very public meltdown involving a dinner party, an insider trading investigation and a $30,000 bottle of Japanese whisky. So he flees New York City, leaving behind his beautiful young wife and son, but remembering to bring his six favourite designer watches. Zig-zagging south through Trump's America on a Greyhound Bus pilgrimmage he is singularly unprepared for, Barry heads to Texas - to find his old college girlfriend and, with her, a shot at a second chance...
Lake Success marriesthe trademark Shteyngart wit with an astonishing emotional resonance, capturing the vivid eccentricity and contradictions of America right now while speaking to the universal human experience of love, belonging, and the pursuit of happiness.
'A trip through the American wasteland - from the people who have too little, to the people who have too much.Incredibly smart, incredibly funny, incredibly tragic, and therefore incredibly human, this is the perfect novel for these dysfunctional times' - Nathan Hill
'The funniest book you'll read all year. A rollicking and zinger-filled road trip [that] sneakily deepens into a poignant tale of a man trying to outrace his problems.I was utterly floored' - Maria Semple
'Stupendous...Reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute... I barked with laughter at the same time as wincing in pain' Elizabeth Gilbert
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241984086
ISBN-10: 0241984084
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241984084
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Gary
Shteyngart
is
the
New
York
Times
bestselling
author
of
the
memoirLittle
Failure(a
National
Book
Critics
Circle
Award
finalist)
and
the
novelsSuper
Sad
True
Love
Story(winner
of
the
Bollinger
Everyman
Wodehouse
Prize),Absurdistan,The
Russian
Debutante's
Handbook(winner
of
the
Stephen
Crane
Award
for
First
Fiction
and
the
National
Jewish
Book
Award
for
Fiction)
andLake
Success.
His
books
regularly
appear
on
best-of
lists
around
the
world
and
have
been
published
in
thirty
countries.
Recenzii
Shteyngart,
perhaps
more
than
any
American
writer
of
his
generation,
is
a
natural.The
wit
and
the
immigrant's
sense
of
heartbreak
just
seem
to
pour
from
him
Uproariously funny, bitingly satiric, yet also warm and big-hearted
SPECTACULAR... More than just an artistic tour de force,Lake Successsucceeds in saying something big about America today.By turns compassionate and mournful, wickedly satirical and ultimately aspirational. He captures what Philip Roth once called the 'indigenous American berserk'
A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced
Gary Shteyngart hears America perfectly; its fatuity, its poignant lament, its boisterous self-loathing. Its heartbeat. Reading him sometimes makes me want to scream - with recognition and with pure hilarity
An unforgettable road trip through an Americathat's ominously divided, wildly diverse, and weirdly familiar. Gary Shteyngart writes with brutal honesty, virtuoso wit, and stubborn compassion for his deeply flawed but still somehow lovable characters
The funniest book you'll read all year. A rollicking and zinger-filled road trip [and] a poignant tale of a man trying to outrace his problems. Epic, melancholy, staggeringly beautiful
A trip through the American wasteland- from the people who have too little, to the people who have too much. Incredibly smart, incredibly funny, incredibly tragic, and therefore incredibly human, this isthe perfect novel for these dysfunctional times
A novel reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedyexactly what America feels likeright this minute. I barked with laughter, at the same time as wincing in pain. Shteyngart has held up a mirror to American culture that is so accurate and so devastating...Stupendous
Lake Successis a genial and warm-hearted book...a virtuoso piece of work, full of brilliant noticings...an unhysterical novel about a hysterical country at a hysterical time - the work of a novelist who believes in the power of fiction to illuminate out shared world.
Shteyngart does slapstick as well as ever, but he stakes out new terrain in the expert way he develops his characters' pathos....A stylish, big-hearted novel. Shteyngart made his name as a sharp satirist, and he'll undoubtedly widen his appeal with this effort
The satirical layering is masterful.Dark - so dark - yet delicious.
Lake Successis undeniably enjoyable, rattling along with good jokes and sharp set pieces, and shot through with Shteyngart's good-natured melancholy.
Referencing classic novels likeThe Great GatsbyandOn the Road,Shteyngart whips up a novel that's part-satire and part-comedy of manners, humanising the super-rich while casting a critical eye over their world. It's funny, cutting, but above all compassionate
Shteyngart's comic energy is well deployed on the ridiculously rich, especially amid Trump's campaign and his election by, perhaps, many Greyhound riders.
Uproariously funny, bitingly satiric, yet also warm and big-hearted
SPECTACULAR... More than just an artistic tour de force,Lake Successsucceeds in saying something big about America today.By turns compassionate and mournful, wickedly satirical and ultimately aspirational. He captures what Philip Roth once called the 'indigenous American berserk'
A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced
Gary Shteyngart hears America perfectly; its fatuity, its poignant lament, its boisterous self-loathing. Its heartbeat. Reading him sometimes makes me want to scream - with recognition and with pure hilarity
An unforgettable road trip through an Americathat's ominously divided, wildly diverse, and weirdly familiar. Gary Shteyngart writes with brutal honesty, virtuoso wit, and stubborn compassion for his deeply flawed but still somehow lovable characters
The funniest book you'll read all year. A rollicking and zinger-filled road trip [and] a poignant tale of a man trying to outrace his problems. Epic, melancholy, staggeringly beautiful
A trip through the American wasteland- from the people who have too little, to the people who have too much. Incredibly smart, incredibly funny, incredibly tragic, and therefore incredibly human, this isthe perfect novel for these dysfunctional times
A novel reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedyexactly what America feels likeright this minute. I barked with laughter, at the same time as wincing in pain. Shteyngart has held up a mirror to American culture that is so accurate and so devastating...Stupendous
Lake Successis a genial and warm-hearted book...a virtuoso piece of work, full of brilliant noticings...an unhysterical novel about a hysterical country at a hysterical time - the work of a novelist who believes in the power of fiction to illuminate out shared world.
Shteyngart does slapstick as well as ever, but he stakes out new terrain in the expert way he develops his characters' pathos....A stylish, big-hearted novel. Shteyngart made his name as a sharp satirist, and he'll undoubtedly widen his appeal with this effort
The satirical layering is masterful.Dark - so dark - yet delicious.
Lake Successis undeniably enjoyable, rattling along with good jokes and sharp set pieces, and shot through with Shteyngart's good-natured melancholy.
Referencing classic novels likeThe Great GatsbyandOn the Road,Shteyngart whips up a novel that's part-satire and part-comedy of manners, humanising the super-rich while casting a critical eye over their world. It's funny, cutting, but above all compassionate
Shteyngart's comic energy is well deployed on the ridiculously rich, especially amid Trump's campaign and his election by, perhaps, many Greyhound riders.