How To Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young

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

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	9780349114859
ISBN 10	0349114854
Title	How To Lose Friends & Alienate People
Author	Toby Young
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2002-07-18
Number of pages	352
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