Toby Young est un journaliste britannique célèbre pour son esprit vif et souvent provocateur, un style qui lui a valu autant de détracteurs que d'admirateurs. Son écriture dissèque les univers souvent impitoyables du journalisme et du divertissement, offrant aux lecteurs une exploration humoristique mais perspicace de l'ambition professionnelle et de ses défis inhérents. Il aborde ses sujets avec un mélange distinctif d'autodérision et d'observation mordante, créant des récits à la fois accessibles et très divertissants.
A British journalist offers a hilarious account of the five years he spent looking for love in all the wrong places and steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys.
THE COAST-TO-COAST BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring simon PEGG, kirsten DUNST, megan FOX and jeff BRIDGES High-flying British journalist Toby Young set out for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan, why not Toby? But things didn't quite go according to plan. Within two years he'd been fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city, and couldn't get a date for love or money. Even the local AA group wanted nothing to do with him. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is Toby Young's best-selling and critically acclaimed memoir of steadily working his way down the New York food chain from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. A seditious attack on New York's A-list and the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast, it's a book USA Today calls a ''nastily funny read.'' With a new postscript by the author on the making of the movie ''Hilarious lifestyles of the rich and shameless ... Young is a self-deprecating Tom Wolfe.'' - People ''Achingly funny.'' - Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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Toby Young, einen Journalisten aus London, zieht es nach New York, um für ein renommiertes Magazin zu schreiben. Aber eigentlich hat er nur ein Ziel: reich und berühmt zu werden - und die schönsten Frauen rumzukriegen. Leider geht sein Start gründlich schief. Er stolpert von einem Fettnapf in den nächsten, und keine der atemberaubenden Frauen, denen er begegnet, fährt auf seinen Charme ab. Da beschließt Toby, noch zwei oder drei Schritte weiter zu gehen...