08897cam a2200565 4500 239010812 TxAuBib 20150809120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780812995336 0812995333 B00DAD3AC4 Amazon 71749493-7526-46b3-ae6b-a99eb3741bf6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 212018 1350079 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shteyngart, Gary, 1972- Little Failure [Bridges eBook] : A Memoir. Random House Publishing Group, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4373kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSDAY • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post <ul> <li>NPR</li> <li>The Atlantic</li> <li>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</li> <li>The Economist</li> <li>The Guardian</li> <li>Publishers Weekly</li> <li>Kirkus Reviews</li> <li>BookPage</li> <li>The Telegraph • The Independent</li> <li>The Irish Times</li> <li>Financial Review (Australia) Little Failure is the all too true story of an immigrant family betting its future on America, as told by a lifelong misfit who finally finds a place for himself in the world through books and words. In 1979, a little boy dragging a ginormous fur hat and an overcoat made from the skin of some Soviet woodland creature steps off the plane at New York's JFK International Airport and into his new American life. His troubles are just beginning. For the former Igor Shteyngart, coming to the United States from the Soviet Union is like stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of Technicolor. Careening between his Soviet home life and his American aspirations, he finds himself living in two contradictory worlds, wishing for a real home in one. He becomes so strange to his parents that his mother stops bickering with his father long enough to coin the phrase failurchka--"little failure"--which she applies to her once-promising son. With affection. Mostly. From the terrors of Hebrew School to a crash course in first love to a return visit to the homeland that is no longer home, Gary Shteyngart has crafted a ruthlessly brave and funny memoir of searching for every kind of love--family, romantic, and of the self. BONUS: This edition includes a reading group guide. SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPEAR'S BOOK AWARD IN MEMOIR</li> <li>LONGLISTED FOR THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE "Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger."--The New York Times Book Review "A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching."--Mary Karr "Dazzling . . . a rich, nuanced memoir . . . It's an immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a success."--Meg Wolitzer, NPR "Literary gold . . . [a] bruisingly funny memoir."--Vogue "A giant success."--Entertainment Weekly "[Little Failure] finds the delicate balance between sidesplitting and heartbreaking."--O: The Oprah Magazine "Should become a classic of the immigrant narrative genre."--The Miami Herald "As vivid, original and funny as any that contemporary U.S. literature has to offer."--Los Angeles Times "The very best memoirs perfectly toe the line between heartbreak and humor, and Shteyngart does just that."--Esquire "Touching, insightful . . . [Shteyngart] nimbly achieves the noble Nabokovian goal of letting sentiment in without ever becoming sentimental."--The Washington Post "[Shteyngart is] a successor to no less than Saul Bellow and Philip Roth."--The Christian Science Monitor</li> </ul>. HTML:"[Little Failure] feels essential, as the document of a way of life that's less and less accessible in our parenting-manual era. Shteyngart was the child of Russian immigrants whose overzealous attention shaped him, for better and worse. Little Failure helps us understand Shteyngart better, but you don't need to have read any of his novels to appreciate his frankness and insight."--Time "A deeply moving love letter to Mr. Shteyngart's life and everything in it: America, Russia, literature, women and his parents.". HTML:The Economist. HTML:"Little Failure is terrific--the author's funniest, saddest and most honest work to date. [It's] a powerful and often moving portrait of a troubled man's creative origins, comparable in intent (and sometimes in quality) to some of the genre's high-water marks, and owing particular debts to W. G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard and, most significantly, Vladimir Nabokov, whose name Shteyngart often invokes.". HTML:The Guardian (UK.) "An ecstatic depiction of survival, guilt and perseverance . . . Russia gave birth to that master of English-language prose named Vladimir Nabokov. Half a century later, another writer who grew up with Cyrillic characters is gleefully writing American English as vivid, original and funny as any that contemporary U.S. literature has to offer.". HTML:Los Angeles Times. "[A] keenly observed tale of exile, coming-of-age and family love: It's raw, comic and deeply affecting, a testament to Mr. Shteyngart's abilities to write with both self-mocking humor and introspective wisdom, sharp-edged sarcasm and aching--and yes, Chekhovian--tenderness.". HTML:Michiko Kakutani, The New Y. "Funny, unflinching, and, title notwithstanding, a giant success . . . The innate humor of Shteyngart's storytelling is dotted with touching sadness, all of it amounting to an engrossing look at his distinct, multilayered Gary-ness.". HTML:Entertainment Weekly. "Dazzling . . . a rich, nuanced memoir . . . It's an immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a success.". Meg Wolitzer, NPR. "Touching, insightful . . . [Shteyngart] nimbly achieves the noble Nabokovian goal of letting sentiment in without ever becoming sentimental.". HTML:The Washington Post. "Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger.". HTML:The New York Times Book Review. HTML:"[Little Failure] finds the delicate balance between sidesplitting and heartbreaking.". HTML:O: The Oprah Magazine. "The very best memoirs perfectly toe the line between heartbreak and humor, and Shteyngart does just that.". HTML:Esquire. "[Shteyngart is] a successor to no less than Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.". HTML:The Christian Science Monitor. "Hilarious . . . an affectionate take on growing up in gray Leningrad and Technicolor Queens.". HTML:People. "Might just be the funniest, most unflinching memoir ever about coming to America.". HTML:W Magazine. "Literary gold . . . [a] bruisingly funny memoir.". HTML:Vogue. "A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching.". Mary Karr. "Moving . . . and laugh-out-loud funny.". HTML:USA Today. Biography & Autobiography. Humor (Nonfiction.) Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. The New York Times Best Seller List. 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