Gary Shteyngart's loving but mismatched 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 deeply 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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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. Second-hand copy no damage to detail. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs within the text. [6], 360 pages in photographic illustrated softcover binding. Born in Russia, migrated to America, where his parents dream that he would become a lawyer or at least an accountant. A failure, he became an author. This is his story (Not a failure in the sense of Woody Allen's sense of failure) This is the first Penguin Edition. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Humour. ISBN: 0241146682. ISBN/EAN: 9780241146682. Inventory No: 0270381. Codice articolo 0270381