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Find yourself in the midst of a heated battle over a sitcom laugh
track. Learn to get away with spectacular crimes. Get lost with the
reindeer people in the mountains of Mongolia.
In Lost in Mongolia a collection of Tad Friend's most original,
witty, and wide-ranging articles and essays from "The New Yorker,
Esquire, " and "Outside" we are taken on a cultural tour of global
proportions. Friend reports from the entertainment mecca of
Hollywood on topics that range from the life and death of River
Phoenix to the widespread plagiarism of movie ideas, to why
celebrity profiles are always dreadful. He critiques the larger
American culture with articles such as "White Trash Nation," " In
Praise of Middlebrow, " and a brief rumination on what it means
when your girlfriend steals and wears your favorite shirt. Readers
will also journey to foreign lands and American outposts, as Friend
goes on the trail of the Marcos dynasty in the Philippines, is
harassed in Morocco, and digs up buried treasure in Sun Valley.
Lost in Mongolia is a one-of-a-kind collection from a refreshingly
candid and well-traveled journalist.
Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was
president of SwarthmoreCollege, and at Smith his mother came in
second in a poetry contest judged by W.H. Auden--to Sylvia Plath.
For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life.
But then, in the '60s, their fortunes began to fall. As a young
man, Tad noticed that his family tree, for all its glories, was
full of alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics. Yet his
identity had already been shaped by the family's age-old traditions
and expectations. Part memoir, part family history, andpart
cultural study of the long swoon of the American Wasp, "Cheerful
Money" is a captivating examination of a cultural crack-up and a
man trying to escape its wreckage.
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