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The Resource How Did You Get This Number

How Did You Get This Number

Label
How Did You Get This Number
Title
How Did You Get This Number
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Summary
From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always teetering between the glamour of Manhattan parties, the indignity of entry-level work, and the special joy of suburban nostalgia-and to a literary voice that mixed Dorothy Parker with David Sedaris and became something all its own. Crosley still lives and works in New York City, but she's no longer the newcomer for whom a trip beyond the Upper West Side is a big adventure. She can pack up her sensibility and takes us with her to Paris, to Portugal (having picked it by spinning a globe and putting down her finger, and finally falling in with a group of Portuguese clowns), and even to Alaska, where the "bear bells" on her fellow bridesmaids' ponytails seemed silly until a grizzly cub dramatically intrudes. Meanwhile, back in New York, where new apartments beckon and taxi rides go awry, her sense of the city has become more layered, her relationships with friends and family more complicated. As always, Crosley's voice is fueled by the perfect witticism, buoyant optimism, flair for drama, and easy charm in the face of minor suffering or potential drudgery. But in How Did You Get This Number it has also become increasingly sophisticated, quicker and sharper to the point, more complex and lasting in the emotions it explores. And yet, Crosley remains the unfailingly hilarious young Everywoman, healthily equipped with intelligence and poise to fend off any potential mundanity in maturity
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Crosley, Sloane
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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  • Humor (Nonfiction)
  • Travel
  • Nonfiction
  • Essays
Label
How Did You Get This Number
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Publication
Control code
OVERDRIVE:17990f7c-ff54-4985-9c8d-53cbf1919e79
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
Form of item
electronic
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True
Isbn
9781101188286
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True
Specific material designation
optical disk
Label
How Did You Get This Number
Publication
Control code
OVERDRIVE:17990f7c-ff54-4985-9c8d-53cbf1919e79
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
Form of item
electronic
http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
True
Isbn
9781101188286
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
Specific material designation
optical disk

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