{"product_id":"lake-success-book-gary-shteyngart-9780812997415","title":"Lake Success","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectacular.--NPR - Uproariously funny.--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e- An artistic triumph.--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e- A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e- Shteyngart's best book.--\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story \u003c\/i\u003ereturns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \u003c\/i\u003eAND MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR'S \u003ci\u003eFRESH AIR \u003c\/i\u003eAND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e- NPR - \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eMother Jones \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eGlamour \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eNewsday \u003c\/i\u003e- Pamela Paul, KQED - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNarcissistic, 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 son's 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, Seema--a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth--has 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fuel and oxygen of immigrant literature--movement, exile, nostalgia, cultural disorientation--are 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 delusions--both individual and collective--that grip this strange land getting stranger.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShteyngart, perhaps more than any American writer of his generation, is a natural. He is light, stinging, insolent and melancholy. . . . The wit and the immigrant's sense of heartbreak--he was born in Russia--just 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 doesn't disappoint.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49587401949457,"sku":"GOR009576802","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49587821871377,"sku":"GOR013102607","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49686077047057,"sku":"CIN0812997417G","price":4.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49852794208529,"sku":"CIN0812997417A","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50205151494417,"sku":"CIN0812997417VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812997417.jpg?v=1751438299","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/lake-success-book-gary-shteyngart-9780812997415","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}