by Gary Shteyngart · OLIVIER · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782823613759
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«Lake Success» is the satirical novel by Gary Shteyngart, published by Éditions de l'Olivier in paperback (384 pages, in French).
Barry Cohen, a New York fund manager, flees by bus to New Mexico after a stock-market investigation and his son's autism, to seek his old love and a simpler life. His wife Seema begins a relationship with a novelist, while Barry discovers an America of outcasts and déclassés on the eve of Donald Trump's election.
Translation by Stéphane Roques. The novel was originally published in English in 2018; this French edition appeared in 2020.
It is an appropriate read for those seeking literary fiction and satire, with an interest in contemporary America and characters in crisis.
Gary Shteyngart is a Soviet-born American writer. He is the author of six novels, and a memoir. Much of his work is satirical.
