How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

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In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left for New York to work for "Vanity Fair". Two years later he was jobless, barred from the best restaurant in town and shunned by the opposite sex. This is a first-hand account of his slide down the New York food chain.

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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again meets The Bonfire of the Vanities , as told by...a male Bridget Jones? And it all really happened.. In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair . Other Brits had taken Manhattan--Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour--so why couldn't he?But things didn't quite go according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from Vanity Fair , banned from the most fashionable bar in the city, and couldn't get a date for love or money. Even the local AA group wanted nothing to do with him. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is Toby Young's hilarious and best-selling account of the five years he spent looking for love in all the wrong places and steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. A seditious attack on the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is also a "nastily funny read." -- USA Today
Toby Young was born in 1963. In the course of his career as a journalist he has been fired from a succession of prestigious newspapers and magazines, including The Times, The Guardian, The Independent and Vanity Fair. He lives in London.
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ISBN 13 9780306812279
ISBN 10 0306812274
Title How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Author Toby Young
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Hachette Books
Year published 2003-06-05
Number of pages 368
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.