{"product_id":"lake-success-9780812987201","title":"Lake Success","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Spectacular.\"--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\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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Shteyngart\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eLittle Failure \u003c\/i\u003e(a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and the novels \u003ci\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), \u003ci\u003e Absurdistan, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Debutante's Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction)\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHis books regularly appear on best-of lists around the world and have been published in thirty countries.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676143943954,"sku":"9780812987201","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_920f5df0-b995-436c-8e0a-baa450b68a3b.jpg?v=1761045921","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lake-success-9780812987201","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}