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Little Failure: A Memoir
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Little Failure: A Memoir

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If you liked A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Everything is Illuminated, you'll love Little Failure

Gary Shteyngart's parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, 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.

A candid and poignant story of a Soviet family's trials and tribulations, and of their escape in 1979 to the consumerist promised land of the USA, Little Failure is also an exceptionally funny account of the author's transformation from asthmatic toddler in Leningrad to 40-something Manhattanite with a receding hairline and a memoir to write.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
7 January 2014
Pages
368
ISBN
9780679643753

If you liked A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Everything is Illuminated, you'll love Little Failure

Gary Shteyngart's parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, 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.

A candid and poignant story of a Soviet family's trials and tribulations, and of their escape in 1979 to the consumerist promised land of the USA, Little Failure is also an exceptionally funny account of the author's transformation from asthmatic toddler in Leningrad to 40-something Manhattanite with a receding hairline and a memoir to write.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
7 January 2014
Pages
368
ISBN
9780679643753