How To Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young
* An Englishman in New York - by a man who survived to tell the tale
I'll rot in hell before I give that little bastard a quote for his book * Julie BURCHILL *
This man, Toby Young, is a rat and a snake and, to hear some tell it, also a raccoonHe deserves all these nasty blurbs * Dave Eggers, author of A HEARTBREAKING WORK of STAGGERING GENIUS. *
In How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Toby Young--columnist and former co-editor (with Julie Burchill and Cosmo Landesman) of The Modern Review--portrays himself as a man pulled to the New York media set by twin desires: to trade one-liners with modern day Dorothy Parkers and Robert Benchleys over very dry martinis, and to drink Cristal from a supermodel's cleavage in the back of a limo. In the event, neither is fulfilled and desire shows itself up to be the snake that eats its own tail--endless and ultimately encircling a big fat zero. * How to Lose... is Young's own telling of his disastrous five-year career in New York journalism, initiated when he is offered a job at Vanity Fair, Conde Nast's flagship star-fest. Young may have been hired for his snappy prose, but his real genius turns *
Fiona Buckland, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW
This man, Toby Young, is a rat and a snake and, to hear some tell it, also a raccoonHe deserves all these nasty blurbs * Dave Eggers, author of A HEARTBREAKING WORK of STAGGERING GENIUS. *
In How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Toby Young--columnist and former co-editor (with Julie Burchill and Cosmo Landesman) of The Modern Review--portrays himself as a man pulled to the New York media set by twin desires: to trade one-liners with modern day Dorothy Parkers and Robert Benchleys over very dry martinis, and to drink Cristal from a supermodel's cleavage in the back of a limo. In the event, neither is fulfilled and desire shows itself up to be the snake that eats its own tail--endless and ultimately encircling a big fat zero. * How to Lose... is Young's own telling of his disastrous five-year career in New York journalism, initiated when he is offered a job at Vanity Fair, Conde Nast's flagship star-fest. Young may have been hired for his snappy prose, but his real genius turns *
Fiona Buckland, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW
Toby Young was born in 1963. In the course of his career as a journalist he's been fired from a succession of prestigious newspapers and magazines, including The Times, The Guardian, The Independent and Vanity Fair. He lives in Shepherd's Bush.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349121406 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349121400 |
| Title | How To Lose Friends & Alienate People |
| Author | Toby Young |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2008-09-18 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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