The Sound of No Hands Clapping, Toby Young
The Sound of No Hands Clapping, Toby Young
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The Sound of No Hands Clapping
A Memoir

Author: Toby Young

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/15/2006


Synopsis

The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling-and laugh-out-loud funny How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.

When even his friends refer to him in print 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 and Alienate People, his account of the five years he spent trying (and failing) to take Manhattan, improbably catapults Toby to bestsellerdom, and his book is translated into twelve languages, including American.

Now Tinseltown beckons.

After receiving a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from a big 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 fabled "brown thumb" and self-sabotaging instincts to reassert themselves. On the home front, though, things seem to be looking up: Toby manages to persuade 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 fulltime homemaker . . . and mother. Toby's increasingly hapless attempts to pursue a glamorous showbiz career while buried in diapers will strike a chord with all modern fathers struggling to find the right work/life balance . . . and with their utterly exasperated wives.

Failure—and fatherhood—have never been funnier.

About Toby Young

Toby Young is the best-selling author of the laugh-out-loud funny How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. In the course of his career as a journalist he has been fired from a succession of prestigious newspapers and magazines, including the Times of London and Vanity Fair, and most recently the Mail on Sunday. He is currently restaurant critic for the Evening Standard and theater critic for the Spectator. He lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nader on June 16, 2012

Toby Young's second, equally brilliantly titled memoir, starts off after How to Lose Friends and Alienate People has got into print. It happens to catch the eye of a Hollywood producer who offers him a crack at adapting a biography about a self-destructive '70s-era record producer into a screenplay......more

Goodreads review by Emma on August 21, 2008

After British journalist Toby Young was fired from Vanity Fair in New York for various reasons such as pissing off and alienating everyone on the staff (I doubt the folk at VF took too kindly to Young buying coke (on expenses?) during the 'Cool Britannia' photo shoot - hey he was only giving his pal......more

Goodreads review by Krishna on May 04, 2015

I laughed and laughed and loudly too. A great book if you have time to kill or you are depressed. The writing is superb and the anecdotes splendid. There is Toby trying his hand at screenwriting, playing the role of husband and father, becoming a critic while producing his own play and getting caugh......more

Goodreads review by Steven on May 08, 2011

Really enjoyed this book. Obviously I'd read How to Lose Friends first and that's how I came across this but despite what some people say, this was a great book in it's own right and not just a poor cash in following How to Lose Friends success. There were numerous genuine laugh out loud moments and......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on August 05, 2012

Another good read from Toby Young. His sense of humor is great and the odd situations he gets himself into are very entertaining. He even manages to hit the heart strings at the end. My hands are clapping!......more