The Resource Little failure : a memoir, Gary Shteyngart
Little failure : a memoir, Gary Shteyngart
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- Summary
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- The award-winning author of Super Sad True Story traces his uproarious experiences as a young bullied Jewish-Russian immigrant in Queens, his haphazard college pursuits and his initial forays into a literary career -- Publisher's description
- "Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own. Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad during the twilight of the Soviet Union, the curious, diminutive, asthmatic boy grew up with a persistent sense of yearning--for food, for acceptance, for words--desires that would follow him into adulthood. At five, Igor wrote his first novel, Lenin and His Magical Goose, and his grandmother paid him a slice of cheese for every page. In the late 1970s, world events changed Igor's life. Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev made a deal: exchange grain for the safe passage of Soviet Jews to America--a country Igor viewed as the enemy. Along the way, Igor became Gary so that he would suffer one or two fewer beatings from other kids. Coming to the United States from the Soviet Union was equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor. Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer or at least a "conscientious toiler" on Wall Street, 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. As a result, Shteyngart operated on a theory that he would fail at everything he tried. At being a writer, at being a boyfriend, and, most important, at being a worthwhile human being. Swinging between a Soviet home life and American aspirations, Shteyngart found himself living in two contradictory worlds, all the while wishing that he could find a real home in one. And somebody to love him. And somebody to lend him sixty-nine cents for a McDonald's hamburger. Provocative, hilarious, and inventive, Little Failure reveals a deeper vein of emotion in Gary Shteyngart's prose. It is a memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world." -- Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 349 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679643753
- Label
- Little failure : a memoir
- Title
- Little failure
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Gary Shteyngart
- Subject
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- trueAuthors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueFamily and Relationships -- Growing Up
- trueGrowing up
- trueImmigrants, Russian
- trueJews, Russian
- trueLife stories -- Relationships | Growing up
- trueQueens, New York City
- trueRussians in the United States
- trueShteyngart, Gary, 1972-
- Shteyngart, Gary, 1972-
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- The award-winning author of Super Sad True Story traces his uproarious experiences as a young bullied Jewish-Russian immigrant in Queens, his haphazard college pursuits and his initial forays into a literary career -- Publisher's description
- "Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own. Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad during the twilight of the Soviet Union, the curious, diminutive, asthmatic boy grew up with a persistent sense of yearning--for food, for acceptance, for words--desires that would follow him into adulthood. At five, Igor wrote his first novel, Lenin and His Magical Goose, and his grandmother paid him a slice of cheese for every page. In the late 1970s, world events changed Igor's life. Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev made a deal: exchange grain for the safe passage of Soviet Jews to America--a country Igor viewed as the enemy. Along the way, Igor became Gary so that he would suffer one or two fewer beatings from other kids. Coming to the United States from the Soviet Union was equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor. Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer or at least a "conscientious toiler" on Wall Street, 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. As a result, Shteyngart operated on a theory that he would fail at everything he tried. At being a writer, at being a boyfriend, and, most important, at being a worthwhile human being. Swinging between a Soviet home life and American aspirations, Shteyngart found himself living in two contradictory worlds, all the while wishing that he could find a real home in one. And somebody to love him. And somebody to lend him sixty-nine cents for a McDonald's hamburger. Provocative, hilarious, and inventive, Little Failure reveals a deeper vein of emotion in Gary Shteyngart's prose. It is a memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world." -- Publisher's description
- Summary
- The award-winning author of <i>Super Sad True Story</i> traces the author's uproarious experiences as a young bullied Jewish-Russian immigrant in Queens, his haphazard college pursuits and his initial forays into a literary career.
- Award
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- LibraryReads Favorites, 2014
- New York Times Notable Book, 2014
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10246717
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1972-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shteyngart, Gary
- Dewey number
-
- 813/.6
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3619.H79
- LC item number
- Z46 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Shteyngart, Gary
- Authors, American
- Summary expansion
- ATLAS
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Little failure : a memoir, Gary Shteyngart
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20144624
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 349 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679643753
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 2013013217
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn841557764
- (OCoLC)841557764
- Label
- Little failure : a memoir, Gary Shteyngart
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20144624
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 349 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679643753
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 2013013217
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn841557764
- (OCoLC)841557764
Subject
- trueAuthors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueFamily and Relationships -- Growing Up
- trueGrowing up
- trueImmigrants, Russian
- trueJews, Russian
- trueLife stories -- Relationships | Growing up
- trueQueens, New York City
- trueRussians in the United States
- trueShteyngart, Gary, 1972-
- Shteyngart, Gary, 1972-
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