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6 Books to Watch for in August 2010

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Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

Super Sad True Love Story

By Gary Shteyngart
352 pages; Random House

Do we ever truly know each other? Is intimacy possible in a culture where every interaction can be tracked and quantified by constantly updated data streams? These are the questions at the heart of Gary Shteyngart's postapocalyptic black comedy, Super Sad True Love Story. Taking place a few decades in the future, in an America where the war on terror has led to financial and ethical bankruptcy...Read more

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