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Resumen del Editor
"Spectacular." (NPR) • "Uproariously funny." (The Boston Globe) • “An artistic triumph.” (San Francisco Chronicle) • “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.” (The Washington Post) • "Shteyngart's best book." (The Seattle Times)
The best-selling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times.
Named one of the 10 best books of the year by San Francisco Chronicle and Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air and named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Mother Jones, Glamour, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Newsday, Pamela Paul - KQED, Financial Times, and The Globe and Mail.
Narcissistic, 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 of the 0.1 percent, a poignant tale of familial longing and an unsentimental ode to what really makes America great.
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
“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.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“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.” (The New York Times)
Reseñas de la Crítica
“This is a novel that seems to have been created in real time, reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute. As I read Lake Success, I barked with laughter, at the same time wincing in pain. Gary Shteyngart has held up a mirror to American culture that is so accurate, and so devastating, that it makes you want to break the mirror right over your own head. I mean this as a good thing. The novel is stupendous.” (Elizabeth Gilbert)
“In Shteyngart’s hands, hard-won family love trumps the false values of materialism. Lake Success is another super sad love story, certainly, but an artistic triumph.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
“A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced...timely but not fleeting. Its bold ambition to capture the nation and the era is enriched by its shrewd attention to the challenges and sorrows of parenthood. Barry Cohen, the glad-handing protagonist, repels our sympathy while laying claim to it.... There’s something uncanny about Shteyngart’s ability to inhabit this man’s boundless confidence, his neediness, his juvenile tendency to fall in love and imagine everyone as a life-changing friend.... [This is also] one of the most heartbreaking novels I’ve read about raising a child with special needs.” (The Washington Post)
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- Narrado por: Dan Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
- De Vira en 04-02-13
De: Juliann Garey
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The Admissions
- A Novel
- De: Meg Mitchell Moore
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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The Hawthorne family has it all. Great jobs, a beautiful house in one of the most affluent areas of Northern California, and three charming kids whose sunny futures are all but assured. And then comes their eldest daughter's senior year of high school....
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Anything for success
- De JillHen en 09-13-15
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Strong Motion
- De: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 20 h y 51 m
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Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
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Compelling Story, Ridiculous Narrator
- De DianeReads en 02-28-16
De: Jonathan Franzen
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Loving Day
- De: Mat Johnson
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of the teenage girl he meets at a comics convention, he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl is his daughter, and she thinks she's white.
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Teen lit with heavy erotic imagery
- De Itinerant T en 08-26-15
De: Mat Johnson
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Miss Fortune
- Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay
- De: Lauren Weedman
- Narrado por: Lauren Weedman
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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Lauren Weedman is not okay. She's living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a gig as a correspondent with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she scored parts in blockbuster movies, which led to memorable recurring roles on HBO's Hung and Looking. She had a loving husband and an adorable baby boy. In these comedic essays, she turns a piercingly observant, darkly funny lens on the ways her life is actually not okay.
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Good
- De Ajules29 en 04-02-16
De: Lauren Weedman
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Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin
- A Memoir
- De: Nicole Hardy
- Narrado por: Nicole Hardy
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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When Nicole Hardy’s eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy’s essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of 35, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.
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This Book Spoke to Me
- De Allison en 04-08-14
De: Nicole Hardy
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I Hate Everyone, Except You
- De: Clinton Kelly
- Narrado por: Clinton Kelly
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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Clinton Kelly is probably best known for teaching women how to make their butts look smaller. But in I Hate Everyone, Except You, he reveals some heretofore unknown secrets about himself, like that he's a finicky connoisseur of 1980s pornography, a disillusioned critic of New Jersey's premier water parks, and perhaps the world's least enthused high school commencement speaker.
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Filthy language overshadowed stories
- De Doris en 04-29-17
De: Clinton Kelly
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The Turner House
- De: Angela Flournoy
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over 50 years. Their house has seen 13 children grown and gone - and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs. But now, as ailing matriarch Viola finds herself forced to leave her home and move in with her eldest son, the family discovers that the house is worth just a 10th of its mortgage.
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The narrator's performance made the difference.
- De KT en 06-11-15
De: Angela Flournoy
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Every Anxious Wave
- De: Mo Daviau
- Narrado por: Zach Villa
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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Why would we need music if our lives were exactly as we wanted them to be? Karl Bender is a quiet guy who lives in three places: his bar, his apartment, and the cheap Mediterranean place on the corner that keeps him well fed with his daily portion of hummus and chicken shwarma. But that's all about to change. When he stumbles upon a time-traveling wormhole, Karl develops a business selling access to people who want to go back in time to hear their favorite bands.
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Frustrating
- De Brit N Jonn Designs en 03-31-16
De: Mo Daviau
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Lifted by the Great Nothing
- De: Karim Dimechkie
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely.
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Excellent
- De Cheyenne en 06-13-15
De: Karim Dimechkie
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Kissing Games of the World
- De: Sandi Kahn Shelton
- Narrado por: Myra Platt
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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What if the one person you can't bear to be with is also the one person you can't bear to be without? Jamie McClintock is a free-spirited artist and single mother who has at last found peace and freedom sharing a farmhouse with an elderly man and his young grandson. But when the old man dies suddenly her idyllic country life comes to a halt as the old man's estranged son, Nate, returns to claim the house and his child.
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Great Writer, Great Narrator ! Loved it!
- De Ms. Critic en 05-30-09
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Baltimore Blues
- Tess Monaghan, Book 1
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Deborah Hazlett
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée—make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.
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I'm on #8 - This series is almost unique
- De connie en 02-19-12
De: Laura Lippman
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Hardly Knew Her
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Linda Emond, Francois Battiste
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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Each of these ingenious tales is a gem, sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, always filled with delightfully unanticipated twists and reversals. For people who have yet to listen to Lippman, get ready to experience the spellbinding power of "one of today's most pleasing storytellers" ( San Diego Union-Tribune). As for longtime devotees of her multiple award-winning novels, you'll discover that you hardly know her.
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I Love Laura Lippman
- De Joy en 07-15-11
De: Laura Lippman
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After Perfect
- A Daughter's Memoir
- De: Christina McDowell
- Narrado por: Christina McDowell
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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In the tradition of New York Times best sellers What Remains by Carole Radziwill and Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey, Christina McDowell's unflinching memoir is a brutally honest, cautionary tale about one family's destruction in the wake of the Wall Street implosion.
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Mixed reaction
- De Margaret en 07-09-15
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All You Could Ask For
- A Novel
- De: Mike Greenberg
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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Happily married Brooke discovers her loving husband has led a separate life with…another wife. Newlywed Samantha learns of her husband's cheating heart when she finds the goods on his computer. High-powered career woman Katherine works with heartbreaker Phillip, the man who hurt her early on in her career. Brooke, Samantha, and Katherine don't know one another, but their stories are about to intertwine in ways no one could have imagined. And all three are about to discover the power of friendship to conquer adversity.
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Annoyed by Hidden Theme
- De parsnip en 08-12-13
De: Mike Greenberg
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In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist, his Russian-born psychiatrist wife, their precocious child obsessed with K-pop, a struggling Indian American writer, a wildly successful Korean American app developer, a global dandy with three passports.
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When Oksana and her family move from the Ukraine to Florida to begin a new American life, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her cranky mother sits at home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets from men. All Oksana wants is to be as far away from her family as possible, to have friends, and to be normal - and though she constantly tries to do the right thing, she keeps getting in trouble.
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Best listen of the year! And it's December!
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A young American student spends a year in the exotic world of post-World War I Rome. While there, he experiences firsthand the waning days of a secret community (a "cabala") of decaying royalty, a great cardinal of the Roman Church, and an assortment of memorable American ex-pats.
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Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumultuous past. Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise. Clever Khoudiemata maneuvers to keep the younger kids - athletic, pragmatic Ndevui, thoughtful Kpindi, and especially their newest member, Namsa - safe and fed. But then Khoudi comes under the spell of the "beautiful people" - the fortunate sons and daughters of the elite.
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When Sina, Maya, Ingrid, and Lisbeth each receive a letter in the mail posing the same question, the answer is obvious. Their old high school friend Kat - Kat the adventurer, Kat who spread her wings and took off as soon as they graduated - has extended the invitation of a lifetime: Come live with me on my cocoa farm in Fiji. Come spend the days eating chocolate and gabbing like teenagers once again, free from men, worries, and cold. Come grow old in paradise, together, as sisters. Who could say no?
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Uneven in both story and narration
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Marilou Is Everywhere
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Fourteen-year-old Cindy and her two older brothers live in rural Pennsylvania, in a house with occasional electricity, two fierce dogs, one book, and a mother who comes and goes for months at a time. Deprived of adult supervision, the siblings rely on one another for nourishment of all kinds. As Cindy's brothers take on new responsibilities for her care, the shadow of danger looms larger and the status quo no longer seems tolerable. So when a glamorous teen from a more affluent, cultured home goes missing, Cindy escapes her own family's poverty and slips into the missing teen's life.
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Quirky heartbreaking and sweet
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Olympus, Texas
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The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms. Her husband's own past affairs have made her tired of being the long-suffering spouse. Is it, perhaps, time for a change? Within days of March's arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of alliances are shattered. In the end, the ties that hold them together might be exactly what drag them all down.
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Overcome the twin giants of cynicism and despair that threaten to derail your emotional and physical health and find hope for life by witnessing the power of God’s redemptive healing. Part guidebook and part storytelling, The Other Side of Hope includes two books in one with the message of finding hope in a desperately harsh world.
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The Big Finish
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For Duffy Sinclair, life boils down to one simple thing: maintaining his residence at the idyllic Centennial Assisted Living. Without it, he’s destined for the roach-infested nursing home down the road. So, he keeps his shenanigans to the bare minimum with the help of his straight-laced best friend and roommate, Carl Upton. But when Carl’s granddaughter Josie climbs through their bedroom window with booze on her breath and a black eye, Duffy’s faced with trouble that’s sticking around and hard to hide.
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SO GOOD!
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After three acclaimed novels - The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far.
Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own. Provocative, hilarious, and inventive, Little Failure reveals a deeper vein of emotion in Gary Shteyngart' s prose.
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did not do much for me
- De Max en 04-27-14
De: Gary Shteyngart
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Short Life in a Strange World
- Birth to Death in 42 Panels
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- Narrado por: Jot Davies
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In 2012, facing the death of his father and impending fatherhood, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down and look at - in situ - every painting still in existence by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the most influential and important artist of Northern Renaissance painting. The result of that pursuit is a remarkable journey through major European cities and across continents. As Ferris takes a keen analytical eye to the paintings, each piece brings new revelations about Bruegel’s art, and gives way to meditations on mortality, fatherhood, and life.
De: Toby Ferris
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Devoured
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- De: Sophie Egan
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
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Food writer and Culinary Institute of America director Sophie Egan takes listeners on an eye-opening journey through the American food psyche, examining the connections between the values that define our national character - work, freedom, and progress - and our eating habits, the good and the bad. Egan explores why these values make for such an unstable and often unhealthy food culture and, paradoxically, why they also make America's cuisine so great.
De: Sophie Egan
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Radio Free Vermont
- A Fable of Resistance
- De: Bill McKibben
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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As the host of Radio Free Vermont - "underground, underpowered, and underfoot" - 72-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location". With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy.
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Small is Best without the BIG ego...
- De Twinny en 11-18-17
De: Bill McKibben
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Sea Wife
- A Novel
- De: Amity Gaige
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Will Damron, Emily Eiden
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two - Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their 44 foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being feral children at sea.
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The last fourth of the book rambled
- De William Brabec en 07-15-20
De: Amity Gaige
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Lake Success
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
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- 04-29-19
Fine. Could have harder bite.
I liked it fine. Did not love it. There were times that I could not get into it. Other times I was engrossed and felt there on the road with Barry. The dual and intertwining narratives of Barry and Seema, conjuring a mix of schadenfreude and empathy, signal that we are still deep in the midst of the anti-hero moment. The narrative arc was something like a cross between Sister Carrie--the rise of Seema (Carrie) and the fall of Barry (George)--mixed with On The Road, on crack instead of LSD. Some of Barry's adventures felt to drag on; I would have enjoyed some additional time with Seema. Nevertheless there were a few good laughs; the satire, like a dessert topping, was laid on but not too thick. Other times it took us viscerally through the debauching of Barry with the grittiness that you would expect of a Grayhound reststop. Perhaps in the fallen world that is Trump's America, that's the fourth circle of hell deserving for the Martin Shkreli’s of the late 2010’s. In fiction at least there is still karma and comeuppance. The close felt both unearned and completely fitting in the current moment. Any fuller satire, like a topping poured on too thick, would have drowned out the underlying narrative, and would have landed the novel in parody or absurdity. In short, it would have made it a comedy. As is, Shteyngart delivered a serviceable funnyish drama.
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- Lesha B. Greengus
- 09-25-21
Loved this Story
The author handles the story with great depth and humor. A work that fits the times we live in.
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- Louis Postel
- 09-20-18
Loved Barry Cohen
Though our hero has serious blind spots: cheating with stocks, cheating being a dad...
On my shelf now between Trollope and Roth
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- Fred Gardner
- 02-19-23
Painful but I couldn't put it down
It's quite a feat to make your main character such a schmuck and yet keep the readers kind of hoping that he comes out OK. The last chapter is an upper but the very last paragraph is confusing. Suicide? A second act forBarry? Great reading by the narrators.
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- Mfeygin
- 12-27-18
Lake Success, a truly successful novel!
I found the novel revealing a panorama of modern life, full of complexity and beauty. It is both optimistic and compassionate, which are the qualities that we badly need in our contemporary dialogue. It's characters are both complex and charming. The narrator is excellent!
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- David Guerrero
- 01-08-19
Glorious meditation on America’s 1%
Masterful and compelling storytelling. This tragi-comic tale brings us from the gilded world of hedge funds to the underbelly of the continent - on a madcap and occasionally sordid journey by greyhound bus to places we never knew existed but are not entirely surprised to find. Excellent.
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- marcos
- 10-09-18
GREAT BOOK
seriously got me thinking about my future, what to do if i have kids and etc
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- Todd Smalley
- 12-27-18
Great performance - slightly miscast?
This book was very, very well read by the two narrators. I couldn’t help but think, though, that the male narrator was miscast. The character was is his 40s. The narrator sounds maybe 20 years older.
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- MTrousdale
- 10-11-18
Great book, meh narrator
I enjoyed this book very much. My one complaint is that Arthur Morey (reading the "Barry" POV) is (and sounds) too old. I heard Gary Shteyngart read an excerpt on City Arts & Lectures and much prefer his reading voice - I wish he'd recorded the audiobook himself.
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- Darwin8u
- 01-20-19
Rewarding the Worst
"Like your first ankle monitor bracelet or your fourth divorce, the occasional break with reality was an important part of any hedge-fund titan's biography"
- Gary Shteyngart, "Lake Success"
Like great Indian food, I'm not exactly sure why this novel works for me, but GOD this book was delicious. OK, so I know SORTA why it works. It is brilliantly absurd, and sharp enough to almost immediately, and almost painlessly, draw blood. I kept thinking that this novel was like a mirror presenting this ridiculous reflection that seems a bit freaky, distorted, and ugly. You think it is funhouse mirror from a carnival, but there is a moment of clarity when you realize the mirror is FINE. The reality is just that you ARE a bit freaky, distorted, and ugly. Shteyngart's novel arcs like Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March mixed with a bit of Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Beatty. While I can't say it was as literary or timeless as Bellow's Great American Novel of exploration and identity, it still hummed with some of that same wild, kinetic energy.
'Lake Success' contained only a few characters to love (Shiva, Jonah, Seema's father, and a couple others), but many, many to learn from. The obvious two are the protagonists (Seema and Barry). They are the super-rich, .01%, Lucy and Ricky, of America in the 21st Century. They aren't the protagonists we need, but the protagonists we deserve.
And then there are the watches, and the pimp juice, and the crack, and the maps, and the sadness. So so much sadness. If I say anymore, I'll just f-it up and ruin the surprise and melancholy joy (No, no. Not joy really. Pleasure? Hell no. experience? trip? Maybe) that this novel was. Thank you Mehrsa for recommending it.
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