Lake Success
A Novel
by Gary Shteyngart
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
Narcissistic, hilariously selfdeluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedgefund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his threeyearold son's diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old coll...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Max Levchin
“Lake Success is pretty outrageous too, but also extremely funny, and terribly sad, and very human”
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