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The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller(Virago Modern Classics)

The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller(Virago Modern Classics)


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A brilliant collection of acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious essays from New York icon Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City Fran Lebowitz is a New York legend. Arriving in the city over fifty years ago, she made her name as a columnist on Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, before publishing two bestselling collections of essays. She's one of America's most insightful social commentators, a sought-after public speaker, a style icon, wit and flaneur. In these essays, Lebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to everything from children ('rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money'), to novelty ice cubes ('flowers belong in one's lapel, not in one's bourbon') and landlords ('it is the solemn duty of every landlord to maintain an adequate supply of roaches'). And her attitude to work is the perfect antidote to our exhausting culture of self-betterment ('3.40pm. I consider getting out of bed. I reject the notion as being unduly vigorous. I read and smoke a bit more'). *'Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things and small people talk about wine' *'Think before you speak. Read before you think' *'All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.' *'My favourite animal is steak'

About the Author :
Arriving in New York over fifty years ago, Fran Lebowitz made her name as a columnist on Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, before publishing two bestselling volumes of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, which are collected in The Fran Lebowitz Reader. She is one of America's most insightful social commentators, a sought-after public speaker, style icon, wit and flaneur. Fran Lebowitz has collaborated with Martin Scorsese on two documentaries: the film Public Speaking in 2010, and the limited series, Pretend It's a City in 2021. Lebowitz lives in New York City, as she does not believe that she would be allowed to live anywhere else.

Review :
The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever She's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour Fran Lebowitz is the rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny In a world of humming, hawing, couching and obfuscating, there's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz Unique .... Lebowitz offers vocational guides for aspiring heiresses, popes, empresses; manuals for landlords; guidance to the rich who wish to meet the poor The funniest woman in America Despite now being over 40 years old, the essays still glitter, every bone-dry sentence pared down and packed with her unmistakeable personality A forcefield of comic self-certainty in a world of anxious uncertainty Right on the mark ... Among the things she hates ... baggage-claim areas, high tech, after-shave lotion, adults who roller skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan Hilarious ... an unlikely and perhaps alarming combination of Mary Hartman and Mary McCarthy.... To a dose of Huck Finn add some Lenny Bruce, Oscar Wilde and Alexis de Tocqueville, a dash of cabdriver, an assortment of puns, minced jargon, and top it off with smarty pants 'the most well-connected iconoclast since Dorothy Parker' In a world of humming, hawing, couching and obfuscating, there's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz A marvellous raconteur, full of wit, wisdom and rebellion. Genuinely one of the funniest people in the world As witty, original, and impeccably discerning as the woman herself, The Fran Lebowitz Reader is a modern classic set to be read for generations to come


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780349015897
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Weight: 440 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0349015899
  • Publisher Date: 02 Sep 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Virago Modern Classics
  • Sub Title: The Sunday Times Bestseller
  • Width: 152 mm


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