In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor to 'Vanity Fair'. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he? It could only be a matter of time before the Big Apple was in the palm of his hand.
But things did not go according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from 'Vanity Fair', banned from the most fashionable bar in the city and couldn't get a date for love or money.
A painfully funny account of career suicide, this book chronicles how, for Toby Young, the land of opportunity became the land of the unreturned phone call . . .
