The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir - Hardcover

Young, Toby

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9780306814563: The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir

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ISBN 10: 0306814560 ISBN 13: 9780306814563

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2006

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Young is back with the eagerly awaited follow-up to his account of a hilariously failed attempt to conquer the Manhattan social and professional scene in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. All the elements that turned Toby's earlier memoir into a bestseller from coast to coast and on both sides of the Atlantic are back, too. Well, some things have changed for Toby-he has married his girlfriend from How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and now has two kids, and he has moved from the Manhattan that treated him none too kindly to London. But Toby remains Toby, and what Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair called Toby's "brown thumb" continues to work its magic, transforming opportunities into cringeworthy debacles and leading to situations that are classic Toby Young territory. Toby gleefully recounts such dubious journalistic assignments as posing as a patient at a penis-enlargement clinic and as a greeter at a Wal-Mart. He has misadventures in Los Angeles as a screenwriter for films that never quite get made, he's been a contestant on an abysmal reality show that absolutely no one watched, and he has acted in a one-man play that was utterly savaged by the critics. Yes, Toby has become a dutiful husband and a devoted dad, but he's as relentlessly self-sabotaging as ever, with a demonstrated knack for attracting misfortune, publicity-and devoted readers.

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About the Author:

Toby Young has been fired from a succession of prestigious newspapers and magazines. He lives in London.

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Simon Vance zestfully reads the self-deprecating annals of the author's attempts to achieve fame as a writer. Young's ambition is to become a successful screenwriter, but his path to success becomes an obstacle course as he bumps into the power people in Hollywood. In his reading, Vance makes sure that listeners enjoy Young's entertaining stories of the disappointments and mistakes he makes in the pursuit of his career. Vance's positive energy gives the author's words a hilarity that makes one want to hear more and more of the book. When you can't tell the difference between who wrote it and who is reading it and you don't really care, that's entertainment. J.P. � AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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