# Lake Success

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- Book: [Lake Success](https://www.bookquiver.com/gary-shteyngart/lake-success) ([Lake Success.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gary-shteyngart/lake-success.md))
- Authors: [Gary Shteyngart](https://www.bookquiver.com/gary-shteyngart)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-409-3
- Published: 2018-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Barry Cohen, master of the universe, has just had a very public meltdown involving a dinner party, an insider trading investigation and a $30,000 bottle of Japanese whisky. So he flees New York City, leaving behind his beautiful young wife and son, but remembering to bring his six favourite designer watches. Zig-zagging south through Trump's America on a Greyhound Bus pilgrimmage he is singularly unprepared for, Barry heads to Texas - to find his old college girlfriend and, with her, a second chance at life... Lake Success marries the trademark Shteyngart wit with a deep emotional resonance, capturing the vivid eccentricity and contradictions of America right now, while speaking to the universal human experience of love, belonging, and the pursuit of happiness.