All the Sad Young Literary Men

By the author of A Terrible Country and Raising Raffi , a novel of love, sadness, wasted youth, and literary and intellectual ambition—"wincingly funny" ( Vogue ) Keith Gessen is a brave and trenchant new literary voice. Known as an award-winning translator of Russian and a book reviewer for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times , Gessen makes his debut with this critically acclaimed novel, a charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-fi