The Sound Of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir - Tapa blanda

'I liked it so much I sent Toby Young an e-mail congratulating him' TELEGRAPH 'Young remains a solid comic writer with a winning awareness of his own absurdity. I couldn't put it down' TIME OUT 'If you like your reading to have a certain voyeurism, this is probably a must' OBSERVER 'Only Young could have failed so spectacularly and turned the experience into such a funny and addictively readable story' EVENING STANDARD 'A fun and - if true - rather insightful account of the bitchy, self-serving world of the London media set' METRO 'Very funny ... we would all love to be as successful a failure as he is' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'As a chronicle of ambition run amok it has no peer' SUNDAY TRIBUNE 'Toby regales us with delicious drubbings, past and present, delighting us with tales of his uproarious ineptitude ... unbelievably humorous' SPECTATOR 'Side-splittingly funny. I laughed out loud several times in every chapter' DAILY MAIL 'The doyen of Loser Lit is back, as bumptious as ever. And still very, very funny' SUNDAY TIMES

When even his friends refer to him as 'a balding, bug-eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet and an ego the size of a Hercules supply plane,' the odds of Toby Young scoring - in any sense - appear to be slim. But then HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS, his memoir about failing to take Manhattan, becomes an international bestseller. Now Tinseltown beckons. After receiving a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from a Hollywood producer, Toby sets his sights anew on a high-flying career, this time on the West Coast. But it doesn't take long for Toby's self-sabotaging instincts to reassert themselves. On the home front, though, things are looking up: Toby persuades his girlfriend to marry him and move to Los Angeles - but then she decides to abandon her promising legal career in order to become a full-time housewife ...and mother. Toby's hapless attempts to pursue a glamorous showbiz career while buried in nappies will strike a chord with all modern fathers struggling to find the right work/life balance ...and with their exasperated wives. Failure - and fatherhood - have never been funnier.