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The Fran Lebowitz Reader - (Paperback)

The Fran Lebowitz Reader - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, <i>Pretend It's a City</i>--<i>The Fran Lebowitz Reader</i> brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, <i>Metropolitan Life</i> and </b><i><b>Social Studies.</b><br></i><br>In elegant, finely honed prose (<i>The Washington Post Book World</i>), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life--its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, Fran Lebowitz is always wickedly entertaining.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b><b>"A great read." -Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's <i>Tonight Show</i></b> <p/>On METROPOLITAN LIFE</b><br>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. --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>Her humor made me laugh aloud and call friends to read passages to them. --<i>Newsweek</i> <p/><b>On SOCIAL STUDIES</b><br>Right on the mark.... Among the things she hates this time...baggage-claim areas, high tech, after-shave lotion, adults who roller skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. --<i>Newsweek</i> <p/>Unique.... Lebowitz offers vocational guides for aspiring heiresses, popes, empresses; manuals for landlords; guidance to the rich who wish to meet the poor. --<i>Vogue</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Fran Lebowitz still lives in New York City, as she does not believe that she would be allowed to live anywhere else.

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