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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader Paperback - 1994

by Lebowitz, Fran

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  • Title The Fran Lebowitz Reader
  • Author Lebowitz, Fran
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Vintage Book
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.s.a.
  • Date 1994-11-08
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP95704526
  • ISBN 9780679761808 / 0679761802
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 in (19.81 x 12.95 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.) - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94061671
  • Dewey Decimal Code 974.71

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Summary

In the vein of Lebowitz’s acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It’s a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author’s bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. In “elegant, finely honed prose” (The Washington Post Book World), 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.

From the publisher

Fran Lebowitz still lives in New York City, as she does not believe that she would be allowed to live anywhere else.

Media reviews

On METROPOLITAN LIFE
"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

"Her humor made me laugh aloud and call friends to read passages to them." —Newsweek

On SOCIAL STUDIES
"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." —Newsweek

"Unique.... Lebowitz offers vocational guides for aspiring heiresses, popes, empresses; manuals for landlords; guidance to the rich who wish to meet the poor." —Vogue

About the author

Fran Lebowitz still lives in New York City, as she does not believe that she would be allowed to live anywhere else.