How to lose friends and alienate people [electronic resource] / Toby Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Toby, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young, Toby, 1963-.

Young, Toby.

Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Journalists.

Journalists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Periodicals--Publishing.

Periodicals.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Penn. : Da Capo, [2008], c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again meets The Bonfire of the Vanities, as told by...a male Bridget Jones? And it all really happened.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""1 ""Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots.""""; ""2 LHR - JFK""; ""3 The call of the mild""; ""4 The first room""; ""5 The Beast""; ""6 In the court of the Sun King""; ""7 The trial""; ""8 Vanities""; ""9 Early alarm call""; ""10 The total Betty""; ""11 Liberte, Egalite, Publicite""; ""12 On the list""; ""13 Nightworld""; ""14 Uptown Girls""; ""15 The 600-pound gorilla""; ""16 The Briterati""; ""17 Not Nearly Gay Enough""; ""18 Celebrity wrangling""; ""19 ""Stay the fuck away from the celebrities!""""; ""20 ""Let's discuss.""""

""21 Cool Britannia""""22 A coke stroke""; ""23 What they don't teach you at the Elephant & Castle Journalism School""; ""24 Midget Jones's Diary""; ""25 ""I'm sorry, sir, that card""s been declined.""""; ""26 Alex through the looking glass""; ""27 Forgotten but not gone""; ""28 Caroline""; ""29 The trouble with Harry""; ""30 The St. Valentine's Day massacre""; ""31 Men behaving baldly""; ""32 Alex in wonderland""; ""33 The green-eyed monster""; ""34 Touching bottom""; ""35 PMT (Pre-millennial tension)""; ""36 Val d'Isere""; ""37 Goodbye to all that""; ""38 Return to sender""; ""Epilogue""

""Postscript: A Word about the Movie""""Acknowledgments""; ""Index""

Notes:

First published in the United Kingdom by Little, Brown and Company (UK).

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-7867-2250-9