Little Failure
Autor Gary Shteyngarten Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 oct 2014
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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, "THE NEW YORK TIMES" - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "TIME"
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING
"The New York Times Book Review - The Washington Post - "NPR" - The New Yorker - San Francisco Chronicle - The Economist - The Atlantic - Newsday - Salon - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Guardian - Esquire "(UK) - "GQ "(UK)
"Little Failure" is the all too true story of an immigrant family betting its future on America, as told by a lifelong misfit who finally finds a place for himself in the world through books and words. In 1979, a little boy dragging a ginormous fur hat and an overcoat made from the skin of some Soviet woodland creature steps off the plane at New York's JFK International Airport and into his new American life. His troubles are just beginning. For the former Igor Shteyngart, coming to the United States from the Soviet Union is like stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of Technicolor. Careening between his Soviet home life and his American aspirations, he finds himself living in two contradictory worlds, wishing for a real home in one. He becomes so strange to his parents that his mother stops bickering with his father long enough to coin the phrase "failurchka"--"little failure"--which she applies to her once-promising son. With affection. Mostly. From the terrors of Hebrew School to a crash course in first love to a return visit to the homeland that is no longer home, Gary Shteyngart has crafted a ruthlessly brave and funny memoir of searching for every kind of love--family, romantic, and of the self.
Praise for "Little Failure"
"Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger."--"The New York Times Book Review"
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"A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching."--Mary Karr
"Dazzling . . . a rich, nuanced memoir . . . It's an immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a success."--Meg Wolitzer, NPR
"Literary gold . . . a] bruisingly funny memoir."--"Vogue"
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"A giant success.""--Entertainment Weekly"
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" "Little Failure"]""finds the delicate balance between sidesplitting and heartbreaking.""--O: The Oprah Magazine"
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"Should become a classic of the immigrant narrative genre.""--The Miami Herald"
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"As vivid, original and funny as any that contemporary U.S. literature has to offer.""--Los Angeles Times"
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"The very best memoirs perfectly toe the line between heartbreak and humor, and Shteyngart does just that.""--Esquire"
"Touching, insightful . . . Shteyngart] nimbly achieves the noble Nabokovian goal of letting sentiment in without ever becoming sentimental.""--The Washington Post"
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" Shteyngart is] a successor to no less than Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.""--The Christian Science Monitor""
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| Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
|---|---|---|
| Paperback (1) | 123.91 lei 22-36 zile | |
| Random House Trade – 6 oct 2014 | 123.91 lei 22-36 zile | |
| Hardback (1) | 151.57 lei 22-36 zile | |
| Random House – 7 ian 2014 | 151.57 lei 22-36 zile |
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0812982495
Pagini: 349
Dimensiuni: 133 x 209 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Random House Trade
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Recenzii
“Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Unputdownable in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody’s desperate need for a tribe. Readers who’ve fallen for Shteyngart’s antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it’s laden and leavened with a deep, consequential psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date.”—Mary Karr, bestselling author of Lit and The Liars’ Club
“A surefire hit.”—Library Journal
Praise for Gary Shteyngart
Super Sad True Love Story
“Wonderful . . . [combines] the tenderness of the Chekhovian tradition with the hormonal high jinks of a Judd Apatow movie.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“An intoxicating brew of keen-edged satire, social prophecy, linguistic exuberance, and emotional wallop . . . The American novel is safe in Gary Shteyngart’s gifted hands.”—David Mitchell
“Exuberant and devastating . . . a wildly funny book that hums with the sheer vibrancy of Shteyngart’s prose . . . He can make you laugh and ache with a single line.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Absurdistan
“[Shteyngart] nails the tragicomedy of foreign relations. . . . Profoundly funny, genuinely moving and wholly lovable.”—Time
“One of the funniest books in recent memory . . . Read Absurdistan for Shteyngart’s exuberant, wise, hilarious voice. . . . The novel is a long, funny, heartbreaking lament for home, whatever that means, and wherever that might be.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
“Shteyngart has given us a literary symbol for this new immigrant age, much as Saul Bellow or Henry Roth did in theirs.”—The Washington Post
“The rampaging narrative is festooned on every page with glittering one-liners, improbably apt similes, and other miniature pleasures.”—Elle
Premii
- National Jewish Book Award Finalist, 2014
- National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, 2014