{"product_id":"little-failure-paperback","title":"Little Failure - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGary Shteyngart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review - The Washington Post - \u003c\/i\u003eNPR\u003ci\u003e - The New Yorker - San Francisco Chronicle - The Economist - The Atlantic - Newsday - Salon - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Guardian - Esquire \u003c\/i\u003e(UK) - \u003ci\u003eGQ \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Failure\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003efailurchka\u003c\/i\u003e--\"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLittle Failure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching.\"\u003cb\u003e--Mary Karr\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Meg Wolitzer, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Literary gold . . .  a] bruisingly funny memoir.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A giant success.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \" \u003ci\u003eLittle Failure\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efinds the delicate balance between sidesplitting and heartbreaking.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--O: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Should become a classic of the immigrant narrative genre.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"As vivid, original and funny as any that contemporary U.S. literature has to offer.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The very best memoirs perfectly toe the line between heartbreak and humor, and Shteyngart does just that.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Touching, insightful . . .  Shteyngart] nimbly achieves the noble Nabokovian goal of letting sentiment in without ever becoming sentimental.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \" Shteyngart is] a successor to no less than Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Shteyngart\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eLittle Failure \u003c\/i\u003e(a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and the novels \u003ci\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), \u003ci\u003e Absurdistan, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Debutante's Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction)\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHis books regularly appear on best-of lists around the world and have been published in thirty countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.24 x 5.23 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758556872992,"sku":"9780812982497","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bf13c03b0537be24eab7ae4d7bd0ce85_2ccbedb0-35b7-44ea-b15e-f09fda31c39e.webp?v=1780129149","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/little-failure-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}