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Title: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Author: Fran Lebowitz
Narrator: Fran Lebowitz
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-04-12
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 100 votes
Genres: Comedy, Classic American
Publisher's Summary:
The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two best sellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, by an "important humorist in the classic tradition" (The New York Times Book Review) who is "the natural successor to Dorothy Parker" (British Vogue). 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, she is always wickedly entertaining.
Critic Reviews:
"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 on Metropolitan Life)
"Her humor made me laugh aloud and call friends to read passages to them." (Newsweek on Metropolitan Life)
"Unique.... Lebowitz offers vocational guides for aspiring heiresses, popes, empresses; manuals for landlords; guidance to the rich who wish to meet the poor." (Vogue on Social Studies)
