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This is a novel that seems to have been created in real time, reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute. As I read Lake Success, I barked with laughter, at the same time wincing in pain. Gary Shteyngart has held up a mirror to American culture that is so accurate, and so devastating, that it makes you want to break the mirror right over your own head. I mean this as a good thing. The novel is stupendous.-Elizabeth Gilbert The fuel and oxygen of immigrant literature-movement, exile, nostalgia, cultural disorientation-are what fire the pistons of this trenchant and panoramic novel. . . . Chief among this novel's pleasures is viewing the nation-its landscapes, its people, its curdled politics, its increasingly feudal inequalities-through the vibrant filters of Shteyngart's Hipstamatic mind. . . . [It is] a novel so pungent, so frisky and so intent on probing the dissonances and delusions-both individual and collective-that grip this strange land getting stranger.-The New York Times Book Review In Shteyngart's hands, hard-won family love trumps the false values of materialism. Lake Success is another super sad love story, certainly, but an artistic triumph.-San Francisco Chronicle A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced . . . timely but not fleeting. Its bold ambition to capture the nation and the era is enriched by its shrewd attention to the challenges and sorrows of parenthood. Barry Cohen, the glad-handing protagonist, repels our sympathy while laying claim to it. . . . There's something uncanny about Shteyngart's ability to inhabit this man's boundless confidence, his neediness, his juvenile tendency to fall in love and imagine everyone as a life-changing friend. . . . [This is also] one of the most heartbreaking novels I've read about raising a child with special needs.-The Washington Post Juxtapositions of immense power and shocking vulnerability, glory and abasement, financial wealth and emotional impoverishment run throughout Lake Success, a rollicking, uproariously funny, bitingly satiric yet also warm and big-hearted novel.-The Boston Globe [A] spectacular, sprawling new novel . . . Throughout his career, Shteyngart has proven himself a cheeky comic daredevil, but never more so than in this novel. . . . An artistic tour de force.-Maureen Corrigan, NPR Shteyngart, perhaps more than any American writer of his generation, is a natural. He is light, stinging, insolent and melancholy. . . . The wit and the immigrant's sense of heartbreak-he was born in Russia-just seem to pour from him. The idea of riding along behind Shteyngart as he glides across America in the early age of Trump is a propitious one. He doesn't disappoint.-The New York Times Lake Success combines the passive-aggressive takeover of New York by the Bros of Wall Street-a subject worthy of Tom Wolfe-with a road novel that echoes Kerouac's buzzy restlessness and Nabokov's sly observations. It's Shteyngart's best book, a deeper dive into what's happening now with a plaintive edge that fits the moment.-The Seattle Times From one of our finest comic novelists comes a work with equal parts smarts and heart to go with the steady hilarity of its plot and prose. . . . Surely the funniest book of the year, indeed one of the best overall.-Newsday Lake Success is a big-hearted book about many things. It's a brilliant satire of hedge fund managers, their trophy wives and gaudy apartments; a heart-rending but ultimately hopeful account of raising a child on the spectrum; and a raucous celebration of racial, ethnic and gender identity in America today.-Associated Press The multiple-time-New-York-Times-bestselling author has written several tomes that hit the perfect note of very funny and very true, and he continues that pattern in Lake Success.-Entertainment Weekly Darkly hilarious.-People A darkly comic journey to the heart of Donald schovat popis