Super Sad True Love Story

By Gary Shteyngart
(Thorndike Press, Hardcover, Large Print, 9781410434418, 577pp.)

Publication Date: February 2011

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Hardcover, Paperback

Categories: General

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Writer Gary Shteyngart recently won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. The 11-year-old award was named for British author P.G. Wodehouse and has been awarded to Brits � until this year when it was given to a self-proclaimed Russian-Jewish New Yorker. Shteyngart won for his third work of fiction, Super Sad True Love Story, and he will be given a pig named after the novel as a part of the prize. Shteyngart told Robert Siegel, "This is what I've been writing for all my life. The last award I won was the National Jewish Book Award � and now I get to hang out with a pig." More at NPR.org

His third novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is a black comedy set in a futuristic America � where books don't exist and where the economy has collapsed. Shteyngart explains why he decided to write a love story in this dystopic vision of the future � and why he thinks technology is changing the way we think. More at NPR.org

His third novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is a black comedy set in a futuristic America -- where books don't exist and where the economy has collapsed. Shteyngart explains why he decided to write a love story in this dystopic vision of the future -- and why he thinks technology is changing the way we think. More at NPR.org