The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan , Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
In a very near future—oh, let’s say next Tuesday—a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don’t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world’s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn’t it? Lenny’s from a different century—he totally loves books (or “printed, bound media artifacts,” as they’re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.
After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our “ancient dork” effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny’s new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York’s Central Park, the city’s streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He’s going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect’s “hotness” and “sustainability” with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.
Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.
發表於2024-12-23
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Super Sad True Love Story is once again about something a cheesy title always omits - death. It reconciles the urban development expectation we've grown familiar and learned how to put up with and the utmost fear of our obvious never-by-choice demise as an ...
評分Super Sad True Love Story is once again about something a cheesy title always omits - death. It reconciles the urban development expectation we've grown familiar and learned how to put up with and the utmost fear of our obvious never-by-choice demise as an ...
評分Super Sad True Love Story is once again about something a cheesy title always omits - death. It reconciles the urban development expectation we've grown familiar and learned how to put up with and the utmost fear of our obvious never-by-choice demise as an ...
評分Super Sad True Love Story is once again about something a cheesy title always omits - death. It reconciles the urban development expectation we've grown familiar and learned how to put up with and the utmost fear of our obvious never-by-choice demise as an ...
評分Super Sad True Love Story is once again about something a cheesy title always omits - death. It reconciles the urban development expectation we've grown familiar and learned how to put up with and the utmost fear of our obvious never-by-choice demise as an ...
圖書標籤: 小說 Shteyngart 科幻 Gary 美國文學 反烏托邦 美國 英語
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評分笑而不語。
評分開頭和中間都不錯,到瞭結尾部分有力有不逮的感覺,給瞭個爛俗的結局。不過坐在F train上看書時看到主人翁也在坐F train,有種其妙的感覺。然後,作者的老婆似乎真是個韓國人。。。
評分開頭和中間都不錯,到瞭結尾部分有力有不逮的感覺,給瞭個爛俗的結局。不過坐在F train上看書時看到主人翁也在坐F train,有種其妙的感覺。然後,作者的老婆似乎真是個韓國人。。。
評分算瞭寫的好好的被結局糟蹋瞭...
Super Sad True Love Story 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載