书目

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (Film Tie In)[如何众叛亲离]

  • 作者 Toby Young
  • 出版社 Little Brown
  • 出版时间 2008年9月 第1版
  • ISBN 9780349121406
  • 定价 108.40

内容简介

In1995,high-flyingBritishjournalistTobyYoungleftLondonforNewYorktobecomeacontributingeditoratVanityFair.OtherBritshadtakenManhattan-AlistairCooke,TinaBrown,AnnaWintour-sowhycouldn'the?Surely,itwouldonlybeamatteroftimebeforetheBigApplewasinthepalmofhishand.Butthingsdidnotgoaccordingtoplan.WithinthespaceoftwoyearshewasfiredfromVanityFair,bannedfromthemostfashionablebarinthecityandcouldn'tgetadateforloveormoney.EventhelocalAAgroupwantednothingtodowithhim.HowToLoseFriends&AlienatePeopleisTobyYoung'shilariousaccountofthefiveyearshespentsteadilyworkinghiswaydowntheNewYorkfoodchain,fromglossymagazineeditortocrash-testdummyforinteractivesextoys.Butit'snotjustacollectionofself-deprecatinganecdotes.It'salsoaseditiousattackonthecultureofcelebrityfrominsidethebellyofthebeast.NotsinceBonfireoftheVanitieshastheNewYorkA-listbeensomercilesslylampooned-anditallreallyhappened!

作者简介

TobyYoungwasbornin1963.Inthecourseofhiscareerasajournalisthe'sbeenfiredfromasuccessionofprestigiousnewspapersandmagazines,includingTheTimes,TheGuardian,TheIndependentandVanityFair.HelivesinShepherd'sBush.

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