Little Failure
A Memoir
by Gary Shteyngart
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Pub Date Feb 26 2014 | Archive Date May 27 2014
Penguin Books Australia | Hamish Hamilton
Description
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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Advance Praise
'Little Failure is a delight.' Aravind Adiga
'Little Failure is a delight.' Aravind Adiga
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780241146682 |
| PRICE | A$32.99 (AUD) |
