How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

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. 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 and Alienate People is Toby Youngs 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. Even the local AA group wanted nothing to do with him. 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. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People : Toby Young : Little Brown : 2008-9 : 368 : 108. sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. 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. Books by Toby Young (Author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People) Books by Toby Young Toby Young Average rating 3.29 5,812 ratings 495 reviews shelved 16,122 times Showing 26 distinct works. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is based on the memoirs of Toby Young, a British writer who traded on some notoriety as an enfant terrible in his. In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young