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Little failure : a memoir / Gary Shteyngart. by Shteyngart, Gary, 1972- Random House, [2014] Call #: 921 S561L Subjects Shteyngart, Gary, 1972-   Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.   Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.   Jews -- Soviet Union -- Biography.   Immigrant children -- United States -- Biography.   Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Biography. ISBN:  9780679643753 (hc.) 0679643753 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Summary:  "After three novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a poignant account of his life so far. His American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad in 1972 during the twilight of the Soviet Union, the curious, diminutive, asthmatic boy grew up with a persistent sense of yearning -- for food, for acceptance, for words -- desires that would follow him into adulthood. At five, Igor wrote his first novel, Lenin and His Magical Goose, and his grandmother paid him a slice of cheese for every page. In the late 1970s, world events changed Igor's life. Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev made a deal: exchange grain for the safe passage of Soviet Jews to America . Along the way, Igor became Gary so that he would suffer one or two fewer beatings from other kids. Coming to the United States from the Soviet Union was equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor. Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer or at least a conscientious toiler on Wall Street, 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. At being a writer, at being a boyfriend, and, most important, at being a worthwhile human being. It is a memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world. Gary Shteyngart lives in Manhattan. He teaches writing at Columbia University."--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Biography 921 S561L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Biography 921 S561L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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