How to lose friends & alienate people

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A masterpiece that made me laugh out loud. Young has made himself the anti-hero of the book, yet by the end the reader is hoping he will succeed, knowing he won't, and despising the criteria that New York sets for success anyhow' Andrew Roberts, The Week 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 did not 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. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is Toby Young's bestselling account of the five years he spent steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magaziné editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. 'This is a book about failure. And, it has to be said, a very successful one . . . highly... Tovább

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A masterpiece that made me laugh out loud. Young has made himself the anti-hero of the book, yet by the end the reader is hoping he will succeed, knowing he won't, and despising the criteria that New York sets for success anyhow' Andrew Roberts, The Week 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 did not 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. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is Toby Young's bestselling account of the five years he spent steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magaziné editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. 'This is a book about failure. And, it has to be said, a very successful one . . . highly entertaining . . . for those of us who like Schadenfreude and the spectacle of someone making an absolute ass of himself, it is delightfuP Nicholas Lezárd, Evening Standard 'More than just a memoir, this book is alsó an examination of the way in which work dominates in contemporary America and the utter shallowness of a média world obsessed with celebrity. It is funny, authentic and compelling' Independent on Sunday 'A fascinating memoir. Gossipy, funny, perceptive, self-mocking and even . . . rather moving' Lloyd Evans, Daily Mail i Vissza