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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
- Author
- Fran Lebowitz
- Narrator
- Fran Lebowitz
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 2 September 2021
- Run Time
- 6 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS
'She's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour' MARTIN SCORSESE
'The rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny' HADLEY FREEMAN
Lebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to the vicissitudes of life - from children ('rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money') to 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').
The Fran Lebowitz Reader was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-06-22
Critics Review
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The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever
David Sedaris
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She's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour
Martin Scorsese
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Fran Lebowitz is the rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny
Hadley Freeman
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In a world of humming, hawing, couching and obfuscating, there's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz
Caroline O’Donoghue
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Unique .... Lebowitz offers vocational guides for aspiring heiresses, popes, empresses; manuals for landlords; guidance to the rich who wish to meet the poor
Vogue
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The funniest woman in America
Washington Post
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Despite now being over 40 years old, the essays still glitter, every bone-dry sentence pared down and packed with her unmistakeable personality
Guardian
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A forcefield of comic self-certainty in a world of anxious uncertainty
Guardian
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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
Newsweek
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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 New York Times
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'the most well-connected iconoclast since Dorothy Parker'
The Times
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In a world of humming, hawing, couching and obfuscating, there's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz
Caroline O'Donoghue
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A marvellous raconteur, full of wit, wisdom and rebellion. Genuinely one of the funniest people in the world
Irenosen Okojie
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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
Otegha Uwagba
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Details
- Author
- Fran Lebowitz
- Narrator
- Fran Lebowitz
- Duration
- 6 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 September 2021
- ISBN
- 9781405553179
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Humour, Memoirs, Essays
Synopsis
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour' MARTIN SCORSESE'The rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny' HADLEY FREEMANLebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to the vicissitudes of life - from children ('rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money') to 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').The Fran Lebowitz Reader was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-06-22
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