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Little Failure
- A Memoir
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
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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.
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Really can't stand Arthur Morey's reading
- De Anne en 12-11-18
De: Gary Shteyngart
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North Woods
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Mason
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets.
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An American Masterpiece
- De Psumissyh en 09-21-23
De: Daniel Mason
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Our Country Friends
- A Novel
- De: Gary Shteyngart
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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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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Beautifully written, painful, but very, very moving
- De Jim en 11-08-21
De: Gary Shteyngart
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Super Sad True Love Story
- A Novel
- De: Gary Shteyngart
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Adam Grupper
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
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Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, creates a compelling reality in this tale about an illiterate America in the not-too-distant future. Lenny Abramov may just be penning the world’s last diary. Which is good, because while falling in love with a rather unpleasant woman and witnessing the fall of a great empire, Lenny has a lot to write about.
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Dystopia Now
- De Ryan en 09-19-10
De: Gary Shteyngart
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The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
- De: Gary Shteyngart
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
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Best-selling author Gary Shteyngart’s exquisite fiction is met with a level of critical acclaim reserved for the very best in the field. In this startlingly provocative work, Russian immigrant Vladimir Girshkin searches for love and self-identity while interacting with a quirky set of acquaintances.
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Don't Let the Title Fool You
- De Loretta R. Cooper en 01-24-14
De: Gary Shteyngart
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Absurdistan
- De: Gary Shteyngart
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Named as one of the New York Times Year’s Ten Best upon its publication, Gary Shteyngart’s Absurdistan is a biting, poignant satire of American-style democracy and the American Dream. After returning to Russia to attend his father’s funeral, 30-year-old Misha is subsequently denied a visa when he attempts to re-enter the United States.
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Major Let Down
- De N. R. Gawlak en 03-03-14
De: Gary Shteyngart
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Lake Success
- A Novel
- De: Gary Shteyngart
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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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.
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Really can't stand Arthur Morey's reading
- De Anne en 12-11-18
De: Gary Shteyngart
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North Woods
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Mason
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets.
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An American Masterpiece
- De Psumissyh en 09-21-23
De: Daniel Mason
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- Sven
- 06-18-16
Witty and funny
You have to be from eastern Europe to fully enjoy this and empathize with his experience.
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- Litlepapoose
- 02-12-14
Great story, wonderful narration!
The narration complements the text wonderfully. I am not sure the author could have done better himself. The narrator has different voices for the author as adult, as child, for his father etc. It is a wonderful performance and you will not want to stop listening. Absolutely worth it. I can see myself listening to this at another time, and perhaps even reading Shteyngart's books.
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- jdh7
- 01-14-14
I loved it!
What made the experience of listening to Little Failure the most enjoyable?
The narrator has a calm, clear voice. He is able to shift from an English accent to Russian accent to Russian to Hebrew in a smooth and natural way. He really captured the emotion in the words he read.
What did you like best about this story?
The author's ability to laugh at himself and his keen satire on a number of topics.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
yes
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- Bolie
- 01-20-15
Good memoir... Good story...
Great performance.. Could do without the effort for fake Russian accents. Would have been better straight up English, without the poor attempts at foreign accents. They all sound like bad variations of Dracula.
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- Emeritus
- 05-24-14
got more disappointing
I am a big Shteyngart fan and was fun in the early going but got much less so as he got into adolescence - most adolescents aren't that interesting and neither is he. Too bad. Go back to novels.
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- HRH Karen
- 05-27-18
Still laughing and weeping
Really, a great immigrant story. G. Shteyngart can coax a laugh and a sigh from the same sentence. He can place you right in the room with him, self deprecating and darling, and his perplexed, quasi lost but not helpless parents who just love him so much and, simultaneously, damage him terribly, and get you to see the moment he is describing from all sides. Particularly in scenes with G and his parents, you simultaneously feel for both of them.
Everyone in this story of life in the new world is trying his/her best, and making mistakes that scar deeply. When GS spoke the book's last lines I wanted more. I wanted to know what came next.
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- melanie
- 04-18-15
well written narrative of the immigrant experience
What did you love best about Little Failure?
lots of self depracating humor ala woody allen
What did you like best about this story?
everyone was very real--felt like you knew the characters
Which character – as performed by Jonathan Todd Ross – was your favorite?
why Gary, of course!
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
His description of trying to fit in to his new high school, recognizing diversity in backgrounds but less diversity in intellectual abilities
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- DebHumm
- 01-17-15
Modern Soviet Immigrant Story
This author is smartly witty. The narrator is genius. His Russian accent gets fainter as the story goes along and the protagonist assimilates into the American culture.
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- Gar
- 07-15-20
very good listen
I really enjoyed this audiobook. The author is very funny and his life story is very interesting. Russian immigrant, challenging, quirky parents(ultimately loving), dealing with American kids as both a Jewish person and from a country which most Americans despised at the time of the author's arrival. The narrator was excellent, very good with Russian accents, a very good fit with the author's words. Well done!
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- Scott
- 04-21-15
Funny in doses
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This amusing, frequently hilarious memoir chronicles Shteyngart journey from Soviet era childhood in Leningrad, to his family’s emigration in the late 70”s to New York, to his college years and first time book deal. Shteyngart indisputably has a gift for storytelling and turn of phrase and the narrative breezes along. His experiences are heavily dosed with self-deprecating humor and one liners that sometimes border on shtick. Though the book is often funny, I found that if I listened too long, it tended to lose its charm and grate a bit. I found I liked it much better when I listened to it in small, measured doses. The narration is spot on, capturing Shteyngart’s angst ridden persona. The mimicry of his parent’s Russian accents humorously (and without insult) enlivens what they are saying. If you haven’t read any of Shteyngart’s fiction (I hadn’t), don’t let that deter you from Little Failure. In the end, this is a lighthearted, breezy read that won’t change your life but will distract you from it.
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