Gary Shteyngart
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born
January 01, 1972
gender
male
place of birth
Leningrad, Russian Federation
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Gary Shteyngart (born 1972) is an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR (he alternately calls it "St. Leningrad" or "St. Leninsburg"). Much of his work is satirical and relies on the invention of elaborately fictitious yet somehow familiar places and times.
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Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart avg rating 3.25 — 3,215 ratings — published 2006 13 editions |
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart avg rating 3.46 — 1,642 ratings — published 2002 15 editions |
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Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006 |
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"'If Pushkin were alive today, he'd be a rapper.' Alyosha-Bob said. 'That's right,' I said. 'He'd be MC Push.'"
— Gary Shteyngart
— Gary Shteyngart
"She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult."
— Gary Shteyngart (Absurdistan: A Novel)
— Gary Shteyngart (Absurdistan: A Novel)
"These kinds of lost, overeducated mama’s boys were perpetually stumbling down a corridor with two distant exits, one marked HESITANT INTELLECTUAL and the other SHYSTER."
— Gary Shteyngart (Absurdistan: A Novel)
— Gary Shteyngart (Absurdistan: A Novel)
