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When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth in the long awaited novel, his first in seven years, from the acclaimed, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story.Myopic, 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 3 year old son s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, romantic life with his old college sweetheart, whom he hasn t seen or spoken to in years Meanwhile, reeling from the fight that caused Barry s departure, his super smart wife Seema, a driven first generation American who craved a picture perfect life with all the accoutrements of a huge bank account, has her own demons to face How these two imperfect characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is the heart of this biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times. New Read [ Lake Success ] By [ Gary Shteyngart ] – kino-fada.fr There has been a lot of talk about what constitutes the American novel but for my money, Success Lake is the American novel for these times.Although the Trump election is not front and center it pervades everything it s a time when amorality and greediness are punished by a slap on the wrist Into this poisonous atmosphere leaps Barry Cohen, a hedge fund manage... The roof garden was divided into roughly two demographics capital on one side, and cultural capital on the other It wasn t quite as split as a Hasidic wedding, gender wise, but it was close enough, and Barry worked up the gumption to leave some of his Wall Street bros behind and wade into thedangerous territory of feminine culture meisters. Lake Success contains some interesting themes and I can see why the critics are eating it up It s also a good candidate for any number of literary The roof garden was divided into roughly two demographics capital on one side, and cultural capital on the other It wasn t quite as split as a Hasidic wedding, gender wise, but it was ...Nope, I can t do it I can t continue to try to read this book that I hate I despise the characters and the story isn t captivating at all I ve tried to give it a chance, but when I look at the book and try to read another page it is painful to think about Definitely not the book for me Maybe for someone else.I don t get them at all Rich and snobby Completely withdrawn from their child because he is Autistic They are shallow and nothing is making any kind of sense at all I m just not sur Nope, I can t do it I can t continue to try to read this book that I hate I despise the...In Lake Success, Gary Shteyngart channels what Philip Roth called the indigenous American berserk with sympathy, humor, and pathos Always funny, Shteyngart encapsulates his deep understanding of contemporary America into the lives, loves, and failures of Barry and Seema Cohenduring the year 2016, at the start of the First Summer of TrumpBarry and Seema live in rarefied Manhattan in which the mother of a three year old boy worries thatIf he doesn t do well, forget Hunter, forget Ethica In Lake Success, Gary Shteyngart channels what Philip Roth called the indigenous American berserk with sympathy, humor, and pathos Always funny, Shteyngart encapsulates his deep understanding of contemporary America into the lives, loves, and failures of Barry and Seema Cohenduring the year 2016, at the start of the First Summer of TrumpBarry and Seema live in rare...Hmm It s either a brilliant Candide esque satire of the clueless wealthy idiots who got us into our current mess maybe they didn t vote for Trump but they thought about it , etc or it s a tone deaf straight white liberal male asking questions about how we got here And if you finish a book and wonder which one it is chances are the answer isn t going to be positive.Gary Shteyngart is the first of his cohort to bang out a proper Trump responding novel although this only tangentially conne Hmm It s either a brilliant Candide esque satire of the clueless wealthy idiots who got us into our current mess maybe they didn t vote for Trump but they thought about it , etc or it s a tone deaf straight white liberal male asking questions about how we got here And if you finish a book and wonder which one it is chances are the answer isn t going to be positive.Gary Shteyngart is the first of his cohort to bang out a proper Trump responding novel although this only tangentially connects to our 45th President, mainly taking place over the 6 or so months leading up to the 2016 election and while the book displays everything you d expect from a Shteyngart novel humor, pathos, lovely sentences , it just feels misguided Barry, the main character, is too dumb ...All I know is I never had any advantages, Barry said I wasn t even lucky enough to be born to immigrant parents Schteyngart s wry new novel takes a swift kick at the funny bone of the American ruling class My thanks go to Net Galley and Random House for the review copy Barry grew up as the son of the pool guy, the man that serviced the swimming pools of the wealthy Now between one trade and another some of it inside, some of it legal he has become one of the wealthiest men in Manhattan All I...SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY, Shteyngart s 2010 dystopian masterpiece, will remain one of my 50 favorite books of all time Its haunting prescience convinced me that technology and social media had already dominated and intruded on our lives to chilling, sinister effect Some of it is already dawning the way we can destroy lives with Facebook or Twitter is just one example of the way we live now LAKE SUCCESS isn t quite as epic, and although there is a nod to the dystopian just a sprinkle this is SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY, Shteyngart s 2010 dystopian masterpiece, will remain one of my 50 favorite books of all time Its haunting prescience convinced me that technology and social media had already dominated and intruded on our lives to chilling, sinister effect Some of it is already dawning the way we can destroy lives with Facebook or Twitter is just one example of the way we live now LAKE SUCCESS isn t quite as epic, and although there is a nod to the dystopian just a sprinkle this is largely a story of the divisive present.A wealthy, educated, but severely dysfunctional couple splits up Barry Cohen is a successful investor, a secular Jew who made i...Gary on Greyhounds Gary Shteyngart writes with an energy that makes most other writers today look like they use their keyboards as pillows for resting their sleepy heads He chooses the archetypal symbol of capitalism through whom to tell his story, a financial wunderkind who has a complicated relationship with his now dwindling wealth But the real subject here, beneath the topline plot, is the state of the nation Or, to beprecise, the s...We meet Barry Cohen in the summer of 2016, an early middle aged hedge fund manager His life is about to implode, and actually has EXploded in a less than civilized way as he flees his enviable digs in the Flatiron District sporting scratch marks on his face, headed for the Port Authority and a Greyhound that will deliver him, he hopes, to a simpler, cleaner,fulfilling life with his college girlfriend The fact that the suitcase he has hastily packed doesn t contain changes of clothing, bu We meet Barry Cohen in the summer of 2016, an early middle aged hedge fund manager His life is about to implode, and actually has EXploded in a less than civilized way as he flees ... Lake Success tracks the mid life crisis of Barry Cohen, a struggling hedge fund manager with a crumbling marriage and a severely autistic three year old son After a brutal dinner party and subsequent nervous breakdown, Barry gets on a Greyhound to find his college girlfriend in El Paso, Texas to set his life back onto what he believes to be the correct course.Gary Shteyngart takes the reader via Barry through an intimate tour of several major American southern cities, each of them a stop on h Lake Success tracks the mid life crisis of Barry Cohen, a struggling hedge fund manager with a crumbling marriage and a severely ...

Lake Success
  • English
  • 24 January 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 352 pages
  • 0812997417
  • Gary Shteyngart
  • Lake Success