{"product_id":"the-fran-lebowitz-reader-9780349015903","title":"The Fran Lebowitz Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller, this is a brilliant collection of acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious essays from New York icon Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, \u003ci\u003ePretend It's a City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever -- David Sedaris\u003cbr\u003eShe's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour -- Martin Scorsese\u003cbr\u003eFran Lebowitz is the rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny -- Hadley Freeman\u003cbr\u003eIn a world of humming, hawing, couching and obfuscating, there's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz -- Caroline O’Donoghue\u003cbr\u003eUnique .... Lebowitz offers vocational guides for aspiring heiresses, popes, empresses; manuals for landlords; guidance to the rich who wish to meet the poor * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eThe funniest woman in America * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eDespite now being over 40 years old, the essays still glitter, every bone-dry sentence pared down and packed with her unmistakeable personality -- Hadley Freeman * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA forcefield of comic self-certainty in a world of anxious uncertainty * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eRight 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 *\u003cbr\u003eHilarious ... 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 *\u003cbr\u003e'the most well-connected iconoclast since Dorothy Parker' -- Jane Mulkerrins * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eIn a world of humming, hawing, couching and obfuscating, there's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz -- Caroline O'Donoghue\u003cbr\u003eA marvellous raconteur, full of wit, wisdom and rebellion. Genuinely one of the funniest people in the world -- Irenosen Okojie\u003cbr\u003eAs witty, original, and impeccably discerning as the woman herself, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFran Lebowitz Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern classic set to be read for generations to come -- Otegha Uwagba","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083482079575,"sku":"9780349015903","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fran-lebowitz-reader-9780349015903","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}