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Lake Success (Paperback)
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Lake Success (Paperback)
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List price R278
Loot Price R227
Discovery Miles 2 270
You Save R51 (18%)
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*Over 50 Best of 2018 listings worldwide* '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
A riotously satirical road trip through modern America from the
brilliant author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan Barry
Cohen, master of the universe, has just had a very public meltdown
involving a dinner party, an insider trading investigation and a
$30,000 bottle of Japanese whisky. So he flees New York City,
leaving behind his beautiful young wife and son, but remembering to
bring his six favourite designer watches. Zig-zagging south through
Trump's America on a Greyhound Bus pilgrimmage he is singularly
unprepared for, Barry heads to Texas - to find his old college
girlfriend and, with her, a shot at a second chance... Lake Success
marries the trademark Shteyngart wit with an astonishing emotional
resonance, capturing the vivid eccentricity and contradictions of
America right now while speaking to the universal human experience
of love, belonging, and the pursuit of happiness. '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 'The
funniest book you'll read all year. A rollicking and zinger-filled
road trip [that] sneakily deepens into a poignant tale of a man
trying to outrace his problems.I was utterly floored' - Maria
Semple 'Stupendous... 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' Elizabeth
Gilbert
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