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ISBN: 0679761802

ISBN13: 9780679761808

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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.

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Rated 5 stars
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Fran Lebowitz's "The Fran Lebowitz Reader" is a must for anyone interested in the best in "urban cool" writing. Lebowitz is unusual in being an American humorist of the barbed--not warm and fuzzy, like Erma Bombeck--variety. She lays on the sarcasm and the weary, I've-seen-it-all attitude a little thick at times, but hey, this woman was born in the wrong era and you can't blame her for that. Picture Dorothy Parker come back...

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Frantastic!

Absolutely uproarious! By the second page, I was on the floor nearly asphixiating from laughter. Lebowitz has an innate flair for striking the funny bone with a combination of a purposefully erudite tone and an unapolgetically self-oriented perspective. Not for the dull-witted.

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Fantabulous

I got this book for Christmas, and I read it in 1 day. I simply couldn't put it down. Since reading it, however, I have experienced some rather strange side effects, the most dangerous of which involves the blurting out of random Franian quotes on innocent bystanders. However, reading the book is well worth the risk involved. Fran Lebowitz is the most intelligent writer alive today. Too bad she isn't also the most...

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