Ebook {Epub PDF} Social Studies by Fran Lebowitz

Social Studies () Source. Report If you're going to America, bring your own food. Fran Lebowitz. Source. Report The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.  · The title of this book is Social Studies and it was written by Fran Lebowitz. This particular edition is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is and it has a suggested retail price of $ It was published by Random House and has a total of pages in the book/5(25). SOCIAL STUDIES. By. GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. Thinner and less consistently amusing than Metropolitan Life (), this new humor collection again features Lebowitz's endearingly grumpy, anti-trendy, pro-smoking sensibility--but now the sketchiness of her craft (one-liners strung together in.

Her first book, a collection of essays titled Metropolitan Life, was a bestseller, as was a second collection, Social Studies. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan,sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, Lebowitz's prose is wickedly entertaining. Her two books are collected in the Fran Lebowitz Reader, with a new. Social Studies. Fran Lebowitz. Random House, - American wit and humor - pages. 4 Reviews. Lebowitz's second collection of articles presents her wry, witty comments on the people, the ideas, the equipment, the frustrations, the pleasures, and the feel of modern urban life. More». Social Studies (book) Social Studies. (book) Social Studies is a bestselling collection of comedic essays by writer Fran Lebowitz. Social Studies was released in a compilation entitled The Fran Lebowitz Reader along with Lebowitz's other bestseller Metropolitan Life.

Written in the tradition of Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz's hilariously acerbic Metropolitan Lifeand Social Studiesare classics of their genre. In them Lebowitz does what she does best, caustically portraying the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life--its fads, trends, crazes, morals and fashions. Social Studies: Author: Fran Lebowitz: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Random House, Original from: the University of Michigan: Digitized: : ISBN: , Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz is an American author and public speaker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker.