Little Failure: A Memoir
SUMMARY(GOODREADS)
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.
Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad during the twilight of the Soviet Union,
the curious, diminutive, asthmatic boy grew up with a persistent sense of
yearning—for food, for acceptance, for words—desires that would follow
him into adulthood. At five, Igor decided to become a writer, and his
grandmother paid him a slice of cheese for every page he produced. He
wrote Lenin and His Magical Goose, his first novel.
Shteyngart’s loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a
lawyer or at least a “conscientious toiler” on Wall Street, something their
distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian,
his mother created the term Failurchka—Little Failure—which she applied
to her son. With love. Mostly.
ADVANCE READER'S COPY EDITION
Hardcover, 368 pages
Expected publication:
January 7th 2014
by Random House
ISBN
0679643753
(ISBN13: 9780679643753)
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