HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE (FILM TIEIN)

Product Description In 1995, HighFlying 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 CouldnT He? Surely, It Would Only Be A Matter Of Time Before The Big Apple Was In The Palm Of His Hand. 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 CouldnT Get A Date For Love Or Money. Even The Local Aa Group Wanted Nothing To Do With Him. How To Lose Friends & Alienate People Is Toby YoungS Hilarious Account Of The Five Years He Spent Steadily Working His Way Down The New York Food Chain, From Glossy Magazine Editor To CrashTest Dummy For Interactive Sex Toys. But ItS Not Just A Collection Of SelfDeprecating Anecdotes. ItS Also A Seditious Attack On The Culture Of Celebrity From Inside The Belly Of The Beast. Not Since Bonfire Of The Vanities Has The New York AList Been So Mercilessly Lampooned And It All Really Happened! Review ILl 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 Raccoon. He Deserves All These Nasty Blurbs (Dave Eggers, Author Of A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius.)In How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, Toby YoungColumnist And Former CoEditor (With Julie Burchill And Cosmo Landesman) Of The Modern ReviewPortrays Himself As A Man Pulled To The New York Media Set By Twin Desires: To Trade OneLiners With Modern Day Dorothy Parkers And Robert Benchleys Over Very Dry Martinis, And To Drink Cristal From A SupermodelS 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 TailEndless And Ultimately Encircling A Big Fat Zero. (How To Lose... Is YoungS Own Telling Of His Disastrous FiveYear Career In New York Journalism, Initiated When He Is Offered A Job At Vanity Fair, Conde NastS Flagship StarFest. Young May Have Been Hired For His Snappy Prose, But His Real Genius Turns)Fiona Buckland, Amazon.Co.Uk Review Book Description * An Englishman In New York By A Man Who Survived To Tell The Tale About The Author Toby Young Was Born In 1963. In The Course Of His Career As A Journalist HeS Been Fired From A Succession Of Prestigious Newspapers And Magazines, Including The Times, The Guardian, The Independent And Vanity Fair. He Lives In ShepherdS Bush.