Super Sad True Love Story (Paperback)
"Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story and auteur of one of the funniest book trailers we've ever seen (not a high bar), has just crafted a sequel — to the trailer, which we're premiering on Vulture. To tout the paperback release of Love Story, he cast another Oscar nominee, Paul Giamatti, to play his roomie (James Franco appeared in the hardcover trailer). There are also a bevy of cougars and returning co-star Felix the dog, as the illiterate novelist tries to sweet-talk a book club in a Brooklyn Heights 'brownhouse.' Shteyngart, currently writing an original pilot for HBO, is not ruling out an acting career, but the role has to be right. He tells Vulture that he recently turned down an offer to play an intellectual: 'Too many big words,' he said. Perhaps he should reconsider. It’s even easier to get typecast as an actor than as an author — and what is he waiting for, a remake of Perfect Strangers?" [via New York Magazine]
In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of “printed, bound media artifacts” (aka books), meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. Could falling in love redeem a planet falling apart?
"’s wonderful new novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance—a book that not only showcases the ebullient satiric gifts he demonstrated in his entertaining 2002 debut, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, but that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality. It’s a novel that gives us a cutting comic portrait of a futuristic America, nearly ungovernable and perched on the abyss of fiscal collapse, and at the same time it is a novel that chronicles a sweetly real love affair as it blossoms from its awkward, improbable beginnings." —The New York Times
"It's a high-wire act, pulling off a novel that's simultaneously so biting and so compassionate, and in his earlier books Shteyngart, while unfailingly shrewd and funny, wasn't always this tender. Super Sad True Love Story is indeed a sadder, and also a better, book." —Salon.com
