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 Sound of No Hands Clapping, The: A Memoir by Young, Toby |
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Brief Description After the international success of HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE Toby Young is back with another hilarious memoir about social and professional failure |
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Author Information Toby Young has been fired from a succession of prestigious newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Vanity Fair and the Mail on Sunday. He's currently working as a freelance. For more info see www.tobyyoung.co.uk |
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Author Profile Toby Young was born in 1963. In the course of his career as a journalist he's been fired from a succession of prestigious newspapers and magazines, including The Times, The Guardian, The Independent and Vanity Fair. He lives in Shepherd's Bush |
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Synopsis When even his friends refer to him as 'a balding, bug- eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet and an ego the size of a Hercules supply plane,' the odds of Toby Young scoring - in any sense - appear to be slim. But then How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, his memoir about failing to take Manhattan, gets translated into several languages and becomes an international bestseller. Now Tinseltown beckons. After receiving a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from a big Hollywood producer, Toby sets his sights anew on a high-flying career, this time on the West Coast. But it doesn't take long for Toby's self-sabotaging instincts to reassert themselves. On the home front, though, things seem to be looking up: Toby persuades his girlfriend to marry him and move to Los Angeles - but then she decides to abandon her promising legal career in order to become a fulltime housewife ...and mother. Toby's increasingly hapless attempts to pursue a glamorous showbiz career while buried in nappies will strike a chord with all modern fathers struggling to find the right work/life balance ...and with their utterly exasperated wives. Failure - and fatherhood - have never been funnier. |
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