Lake Success: A Novel

ôSpectacular.öùNPR ò ôUproariously funny.öùThe Boston Globe ò ôAn artistic triumph.öùSan Francisco Chronicle ò ôA novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.öùThe Washington Post ò ôShteyngartÆs best book.öùThe Seattle Times The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPRÆS FRESH AIR AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review ò NPR ò The Washington Post ò O: The Oprah Magazine ò Mother Jones ò Glamour ò Library Journal ò Kirkus Reviews ò Newsday ò Pamela Paul, KQED ò Financial Times ò The Globe and Mail Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old sonÆs diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seemaùa driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealthùhas her own demons to face. How these two flawed characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is at the heart of this piercing exploration, a poignant tale of familial longing and an unsentimental ode to America. LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION ôThe fuel and oxygen of immigrant literatureùmovement, exile, nostalgia, cultural disorientationùare what fire the pistons of this trenchant and panoramic novel. . . . [It is] a novel so pungent, so frisky and so intent on probing the dissonances and delusionsùboth individual and collectiveùthat grip this strange land getting stranger.öùThe New York Times Book Review ôShteyngart, perhaps more than any American writer of his generation, is a natural. He is light, stinging, insolent and melancholy. . . . The wit and the immigrantÆs sense of heartbreakùhe was born in Russiaùjust seem to pour from him. The idea of riding along behind Shteyngart as he glides across America in the early age of Trump is a propitious one. He doesnÆt disappoint.öùThe New York Times

• | Author: Gary Shteyngart
• | Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• | Publication Date: Jun 04, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0812987209
• | ISBN-13: 9780812987201