Gary Shteyngart
Autor(a) de Super Sad True Love Story
About the Author
Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad, which is now St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1972. He moved to the United States seven years later with his family. He received a bachelor's degree in politics from Oberlin College in Ohio and an MFA in creative writing from City University of New York. His debut mostrar mais novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His other works include Absurdistan, Super Sad True Love Story, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and Little Failure: A Memoir. He has taught writing at Hunter College, Columbia University, and Princeton University. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Gary Shteyngart
Shylock on the Neva 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting… (2004) — Narrador, algumas edições — 717 exemplares
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Contribuidor — 167 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
The Encyclopedia of Exes: 26 Stories by Men of Love Gone Wrong (2005) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice (2017) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Shteyngart, Gary
- Outros nomes
- Shteyngart, Igor Semyonovich (birth)
- Data de nascimento
- 1972-07-05
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
Russia (birth) - Local de nascimento
- Leningrad, Russian Federation, USSR
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- Stuyvesant High School
Oberlin College (BA | politics)
Hunter College (MFA) - Ocupações
- professor
writer - Organizações
- Columbia University
Travel + Leisure - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (2007)
- Agente
- Denise Shannon
Membros
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 22
- Membros
- 8,683
- Popularidade
- #2,762
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 363
- ISBN
- 159
- Línguas
- 13
- Marcado como favorito
- 14
While the outside menace, both viral and human, hovers in the background and occasionally intervenes directly, it’s really the comic and pathetic interactions of this group of people that dominate the novel up until the final pages. They lust and ache for each other in ways physical, fraternal, spousal, and parental. They are petty and they are generously warm hearted. Shteyngart very funnily sends himself up as the character of Sasha Senderovsky, aka “the landowner”, once a successful novelist but now a struggling screenwriter known as “Return to Sender” by his would-be benefactor because of all the unsatisfactory scripts he sends in.
In the end it’s not a great Shteyngartian satire or the Great Pandemic Novel as much as it is a surprisingly humane (and comic, yes) novel about people, which is pretty much my favorite kind of novel.
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