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How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley

How Did You Get This Number

By Sloane Crosley

By Sloane Crosley

By Sloane Crosley

By Sloane Crosley

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May 03, 2011 | ISBN 9781594485190

Ebook $9.99

Jun 15, 2010 | ISBN 9781101188286

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Jun 15, 2010 | 390 Minutes

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    About How Did You Get This Number

    The hilarious New York Times bestselling literary essay collection from Sloane Crosley, the author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and The Clasp.

    Sloane Crosley, the brilliantly funny “fountain of observations” (Boston Globe), now takes readers from a bear-infested wedding in Alaska to a run-in with clowns in Portugal in a new collection of essays about the messiest and most unexpected dilemmas life has to offer.

    “How sure-footed and observant Sloane Crosley is. How perfectly, relentlessly funny.” — David Sedaris

    About How Did You Get This Number

    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.

    About How Did You Get This Number

    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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    About Sloane Crosley

    Sloane Crosley is the author of the new collection Look Alive Out There, the novel The Clasp, and the bestselling essay collections How Did You Get This Number and I Was Told There’d Be Cake, which was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her… More about Sloane Crosley

    About Sloane Crosley

    Sloane Crosley is the author of the new collection Look Alive Out There, the novel The Clasp, and the bestselling essay collections How Did You Get This Number and I Was Told There’d Be Cake, which was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her… More about Sloane Crosley

    About Sloane Crosley

    Sloane Crosley is the author of the new collection Look Alive Out There, the novel The Clasp, and the bestselling essay collections How Did You Get This Number and I Was Told There’d Be Cake, which was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her… More about Sloane Crosley

    Product Details

    Category: Humor | Travel Writing | Literary Collections

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    May 03, 2011 | 288 Pages | 5-1/8 x 8 | ISBN 9781594485190

    Category: Humor | Travel Writing | Literary Collections

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Jun 15, 2010 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781101188286

    Category: Humor | Travel Writing | Literary Collections | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Jun 15, 2010 | 390 Minutes | ISBN 9781101155035

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    Praise

    “Wonderful and entertaining.” — USA Today

    “Undeniably funny… Crosley’s work speaks volumes to her generation.” — San Francisco Chronicle

    “Charming… Crosley has an original spark… [She] is like a tap dancer, lighthearted and showmanlike… capable of surprising you with the reserves of emotion and keen social observation that motivate the performance.” — The New York Times Book Review

    “Crosley writes with such buoyancy. But [she]… shows a depth that’s every bit as enjoyable as the full-on belly laughs.” — Entertainment Weekly

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