Lake Success

Name: Lake Success
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Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Gary Shteyngart
ISBN: 978-0-241-98408-6

Par : Gary Shteyngart

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Nombre de pages340
FormatGrand Format
PrésentationBroché

Poids0.245 kg
Dimensions12,9 cm × 19,8 cm × 2,2 cm
ISBN978-0-241-98408-6
EAN9780241984086
Date de parution06/06/2019
ÉditeurPenguin Books

Résumé

New Yorker Barry Cohen — who earns more in a day than most of us will in our best year — has hit rock bottom. He's under investigation for fraud. His wife hates him. And his two-year-old autistic son confounds him. So he runs away. Boarding ä Greyhound bus he takes to the road looking to rediscover the man he was before success and excess spoiled him. But crossing a beaten and broken America, his eyes are opened to heartbreak and pain.
Failure is everywhere — he's not alone. So why is he so lonely ? Perhaps his old college sweetheart Layla can tell him — if he can find her.

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alfred e.— Decitre Bellecour

4/5

“ We won't take Manhattan ”

Reading Barry Cohen's fall and fall again story is reminiscent of an episode of Larry David's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' television sitcom. There is a similar tone of derision and absurd in the depiction of Cohen's impish flight from adult responsibility in New York City when a business scandal and a seemingly irrecuperable marriage with a status-minded spouse sends him on Greyhound road trip to the Deep South in order to accomplish what ? Common wisdom says that it is impossible to run away from problems, yet the American 'Dream' has always dictated the possibility of reinventing oneself when life's challenges require radical change. A fun read for the holidays, full of comic escapism.