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Not since Bonfire of the Vanities has the New York A-list been so mercilessly lampooned - and it all really happened!Īll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. It's also a seditious attack on the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast.
But it's not just a collection of self-deprecating anecdotes. But it's not just a collection of self-deprecating anecdotes. How To Lose Friends & Alienate People is Toby Young's hilarious account of the five years he spent steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. How To Lose Friends & Alienate People is Toby Young's hilarious account of the five years he spent steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. Even the local AA group wanted nothing to do with him.
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. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he? Surely, it would only be a matter of time before the Big Apple was in the palm of his hand.īut things did not go according to plan. In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
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