Regrettably, the panto season has come early this year: Young, whose last stage appearance was 21 years ago as a spear-carrier in an undergraduate production, here takes to the stage to make a spectacle of himself. I suggested that he might end up in panto. At the time, I commented that Young's shamelessness was such that he didn't seem to mind that he had cast himself in a reptilian light, and in that respect he was like Neil Hamilton. Toby Young How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Hardcover Jby Toby Young (Author) 143 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 11.73 50 Used from 1.21 13 New from 7.99 4 Collectible from 14.36 Paperback 1.95 23 Used from 1.95 2 New from 4. Mostly, though, it was poor Toby moaning about how he couldn't get into the best parties or get laid, and showing off his English superiority over all those shallow New Yorkers.Įighteen months ago, a one-man stage version of the book surfaced at Soho Theatre, with Jack Davenport lending some sympathy to the Young character. New York took him and spat out the pips Young promptly turned the experience into a bestselling book about failure, casting himself as a self-deprecating Englishman up against a city and culture obsessed with wealth and celebrity. The first book was about his career at Vanity.
Then he landed a job on Vanity Fair and thought that New York was his for the taking. His new book, The Sound of No Hands Clapping, is the second instalment of his adventures after How To Lose Friends and Alienate People (2001). B ack in the mid-1990s, Toby Young was a well-connected London journalist. Simon Pegg is Sidney Young, the cocky journalist that is autobiographical of Toby Young, author of the novel How To Lose Friends and Alienate People.
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