A riotous, satirical road trip through Trump's America from the author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan.
Gary Shteyngart is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and the novels Super 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) and Lake Success. His books regularly appear on best-of lists around the world and have been published in thirty countries.
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
*The New York Times*
Uproariously funny, bitingly satiric, yet also warm and
big-hearted
*Boston Globe*
SPECTACULAR... More than just an artistic tour de force, Lake
Success succeeds 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'
*NPR/Fresh Air*
A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced
*Washington Post*
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
*Richard Ford*
An unforgettable road trip through an America that'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
*Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of 'The Leftovers'*
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
*Maria Semple, author of 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette?'*
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, author of 'The Nix'*
A novel 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. Shteyngart has held up a
mirror to American culture that is so accurate and so
devastating... Stupendous
*Elizabeth Gilbert*
Lake Success is 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.
*Literary Review*
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
*Publisher's Weekly*
The satirical layering is masterful. Dark - so dark - yet
delicious.
*Esquire*
Lake Success is undeniably enjoyable, rattling along with good
jokes and sharp set pieces, and shot through with Shteyngart's
good-natured melancholy.
*The Times*
Referencing classic novels like The Great Gatsby and On 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
*The Herald Magazine*
Shteyngart's comic energy is well deployed on the ridiculously
rich, especially amid Trump's campaign and his election by,
perhaps, many Greyhound riders.
*Daily Mail*
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