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Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2010-07-27
- Pages
- 334
- ISBN
- 9781400066407
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400066409
ISBN-13
9781400066407
eBay Product ID (ePID)
80461956
Product Key Features
Book Title
Super Sad True Love Story : a Novel
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Dystopian, Satire, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-037971
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"This is one of the funniest and most frightening books I've ever read. It pictures a New York dystopia that is scary because it's already happening. I never really believed in the horrors of1984, but the details ofSuper Sad True Love Storyare all too convincing. Gary Shteyngart is our greatest satirist, but he also knows how to write about love and vulnerability in a way to make the angels (and ordinary mortals) weep."-Edmund White "The sweet but hapless Lenny Abramov and the beautiful Eunice Park are the Romeo and Juliet of our wobbly age.Super Sad True Love Storyis a terrifying and heartbreaking, yet exhilarating and hilarious vision of where our post-literate, post-solvent civilization is headed."-Kiran Desai, author ofThe Inheritance of Loss "If there is any serious reader out there who has not yet made the acquaintance of the seriously absurd universe of Gary Shteyngart then she would be well advised to get on it. With roots deep in the heart of Russian literature, Shteyngart has become an indispensable and important American writer.Super Sad True Love Storyshows him at his soulful, smart and hilarious best."-Jay McInerney "Super Sad True Love Storyis an intoxicating brew of keen-edged satire, social prophecy, linguistic exuberance, and emotional wallop. The American novel is safe in Gary Shteyngart's gifted hands."-David Mitchell "Gary Shteyngart has written an ingenious satire with enough reality to be truly frightening, super funny and super sad."-Mary Gaitskill, “Gary Shteyngart’s wonderful new novel, Super Sad True Love Story , is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance - a book that not only showcases the ebullient satiric gifts&but that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality. It’s a novel that gives us a cutting comic portrait of a futuristic America, nearly ungovernable and perched on the abyss of fiscal collapse, and at the same time it is a novel that chronicles a sweetly real love affair as it blossoms from its awkward, improbable beginnings. Mr. Shteyngart spent his earliest childhood in Leningrad, then moved with his family to the United States, and “Super Sad� reflects his dual heritage, combining the dark soulfulness of Russian literature with the antic inventiveness of postmodern American writing; the tenderness of the Chekhovian tradition with the hormonal high jinks of a Judd Apatow movie&It demonstrates a new emotional bandwidth and ratifies his emergence as one of his generation’s most original and exhilarating writers&In recounting the story of Lenny and Eunice in his antic, supercaffeinated prose, Mr. Shteyngart gives us his most powerful and heartfelt novel yet - a novel that performs the delightful feat of mashing up an apocalyptic satire with a genuine supersad true love story.� - Michiko Kakutani , New York Times “Gary Shteyngart’s third novel, Super Sad True Love Story , had to be a total blast to write. It’s an homage to science fiction, George Orwell’s 1984 in particular, with a satirical postmodern overlay of authorial wish fulfillment&.The text consists of Lenny’s diary entries and Eunice’s e-mails to various friends and family. They both write with endearing, sometimes clumsy earnestness, and their intertwining narratives, for all the book’s cheeky darkness, pose a superserious question: Can love and language save the world?� -Elle “Shteyngart makes trenchant, often hilarious, observations about a fading empire.� - O Magazine “With Shteyngart’s nutty knack for tangy language, it’s as if Vladimir Nabokov rewrote 1984 .� -People “It’s not easy to summarize Shteyngart; there’s so much satirical gunpowder packed into every sentence that the effect gets lost in the short version. But basically, this is a love story [that is] ridiculously witty and painfully prescient, but more than either of those, it’s romantic.� - Time (summer preview) “Finally, a funny book about the financial crisis.� -Wall Street Journal “[A] smart send-up of our info-overload age& Love Story is funny, on-target, and ultimately sad as it captures the absurdity and anxiety of navigating an increasingly out-of-control world.� -Entertainment Weekly “Exuberant and devastating& such an acidly funny, prescient book& It’s a wildly funny book that hums with the sheer vibrancy of Shteyngart’s prose, and that holds up a riotous, terrifying mirror to a corrupted American empire in decline.� -San Francisco Chronicle “The satirist author of Absurdistan rewrites 1984 as a black comedy set in a near future where everything scary about multinational banks, media super-saturation, and American cultural devolution is amped up to 11 (and really funny).� -Details “It’s a love story, and as super-sad as the title promises&Shteyngart is the, "Gary Shteyngart's wonderful new novel,Super Sad True Love Story, is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance - a book that not only showcases the ebullient satiric gifts…but that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality. It's a novel that gives us a cutting comic portrait of a futuristic America, nearly ungovernable and perched on the abyss of fiscal collapse, and at the same time it is a novel that chronicles a sweetly real love affair as it blossoms from its awkward, improbable beginnings. Mr. Shteyngart spent his earliest childhood in Leningrad, then moved with his family to the United States, and "Super Sad" reflects his dual heritage, combining the dark soulfulness of Russian literature with the antic inventiveness of postmodern American writing; the tenderness of the Chekhovian tradition with the hormonal high jinks of a Judd Apatow movie…It demonstrates a new emotional bandwidth and ratifies his emergence as one of his generation's most original and exhilarating writers…In recounting the story of Lenny and Eunice in his antic, supercaffeinated prose, Mr. Shteyngart gives us his most powerful and heartfelt novel yet - a novel that performs the delightful feat of mashing up an apocalyptic satire with a genuine supersad true love story." -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "Gary Shteyngart's third novel,Super Sad True Love Story, had to be a total blast to write. It's an homage to science fiction, George Orwell's1984in particular, with a satirical postmodern overlay of authorial wish fulfillment….The text consists of Lenny's diary entries and Eunice's e-mails to various friends and family. They both write with endearing, sometimes clumsy earnestness, and their intertwining narratives, for all the book's cheeky darkness, pose a superserious question: Can love and language save the world?" -Elle "Shteyngart makes trenchant, often hilarious, observations about a fading empire." -O Magazine "It's not easy to summarize Shteyngart; there's so much satirical gunpowder packed into every sentence that the effect gets lost in the short version. But basically, this is a love story [that is] ridiculously witty and painfully prescient, but more than either of those, it's romantic." -Time(summer preview) "Finally, a funny book about the financial crisis." -Wall Street Journal "[A] smart send-up of our info-overload age… Love Storyis funny, on-target, and ultimately sad as it captures the absurdity and anxiety of navigating an increasingly out-of-control world." -Entertainment Weekly "Exuberant and devastating… such an acidly funny, prescient book… It's a wildly funny book that hums with the sheer vibrancy of Shteyngart's prose, and that holds up a riotous, terrifying mirror to a corrupted American empire in decline." -San Francisco Chronicle "The satirist author of Absurdistan rewrites 1984 as a black comedy set in a near future where everything scary about multinational banks, media super-saturation, and American cultural devolution is amped up to 11 (and really funny)." -Details "It's a love story, and as super-sad as the title promises…Shteyngart is the Joseph Heller of the information age…That's the difference between Shteyngart and the average literary satirist (or even an above-average o
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan , Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years--and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. In a very near future--oh, let's say next Tuesday--a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn't it? Lenny's from a different century--he totally loves books (or "printed, bound media artifacts," as they're now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our "ancient dork" effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny's new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York's Central Park, the city's streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He's going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect's "hotness" and "sustainability" with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being. Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.
LC Classification Number
PS3619.H79S87 2010
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