Area Code 212 - Softcover

Tama Janowitiz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747558280 ISBN 13: 9780747558286

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2002

Synopsis

I was walking down the street and a homeless person on the corner yelled to me, 'Hey, honey - you having a bad hair day?' Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, New York's wittiest and deader than deadpan social scene chronicler. Littered with idiosyncratic delights and oddities, here are hilarious stories of her eighties blind date club with Andy Warhol; her brief moment of celebrity as an elderly teenage extra in a ZZ Top video; and testing as mentally retarded on an IQ test. Janowitz gives us her unique low-down on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies and Brooklyn, big hair and bad hair days - and survival tips for real life girls. Self-deprecating, funny and often touching, AREA CODE 212 is a sparkling and deeply amusing collection.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"The other day I was walking down the street (again, fully, 100 percent clothed, and when I say 100 percent, that means practically not an inch of exposed skin) and some man on a corner yelled, "You having a bad-hair day! Whoops, I mean you having a bad-hair month! I guess you probably having a bad-hair life!"
- from Area Code 212

Praise for Tama Janowitz

"A writer of considerable talent."
- The New York Observer

"A singular talent"
- The New York Times Book Review

"A true original."
- San Francisco Chronicle

"Funny, reflective . . . wonderfully sharp."
- The Washington Post

"A penetrating eye."
- New York magazine

About the Author:

Tama Janowitz is the author of six books and writes for numerous periodicals including the NEW YORKER and ELLE. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her brutish, handsome husband, malevolent, adorable child, and two six-pound, partially hairless dogs, one of whom is crazy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0747558280
• ISBN 13: 9780747558286
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352