{"product_id":"lake-success-by-gary-shteyngart","title":"Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Spectacular.”—NPR • “Uproariously funny.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• “An artistic triumph.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• “Shteyngart’s best book.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ereturns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAND MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR’S \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFRESH AIR \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• NPR • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMother Jones \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGlamour \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsday \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• Pamela Paul, KQED • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The 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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Shteyngart, 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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56350843142310,"sku":"9780812987201","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/4637\/7638\/files\/IMG-2245.jpg?v=1775587885","url":"https:\/\/woollybearbooks.com\/products\/lake-success-by-gary-shteyngart","provider":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}