How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

2 2008 by Toby Young (Author) 4.2 out of 5 stars 114 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 2.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 34.80 15 Used from 14.08 5 New from 28. Simultaneous release with the Da Capo hardcover (Forecasts, June 10). How to Lose Friends and Alienate People movie tie-in: A Memoir Paperback Sept. His hilariously screechy imitations of some of the female heavy hitters of the publishing world (such as Tina Brown and Peggy Siegal) bring out his knack for hyperbole and his boyish, prankster style. Instantly, he discovers his boorish, snarky Brit ways are detested by everyone, and he infuriates the one person with whom he is destined to fall in love: cool, sober-sided editor Alison, played by. Young's crisp reading of this memoir is highly entertaining and bitter, yet guileless and funny. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People : Toby Young : Little Brown : 2008-9 : 368 : 108. The saving grace of Young's tale of his own downward spiral is his ability to lambaste himself along with the New York publishing world. by Young, Toby About This Item Reviews Details Terms of Sale About the Seller Collecting and identifying signed letters and holographic documents May the. ('Basically I forgot to fire Toby Young every day for two years'), Young is shocked to find that his journalist colleagues are more awed by celebrity than news and are more likely to cuddle up with publicists than with a smoke and a shot at the local watering hole. Hired by editor Graydon Carter to work at Vanity Fair He isn't attractive (he calls himself a Philip Seymour Hoffman look-alike, but with bad teeth), he's socially inept without alcohol and, most importantly, he's consumed with the desire to 'be somebody.' His memoir is a hilarious and scathing insider's view of the world in which Young wishes so badly to fit. Toby Daniel Moorsom Young (born 1963) is a British journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his failed five-year. Seemingly unable to keep from offending everyone he comes in contact with, British-born Young is a misfit in the New York publishing world.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young