false 74109752 2117559 55362 0679761802 9780679761808 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170449441m/55362.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170449441s/55362.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55362.The_Fran_Lebowitz_Reader 4.08 100 The Fran Leibowitz Reader. This paperback collects her two bestsellers of the 1970s into one volume, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. Back then, her books defined knowing, urban cool. Guess what? They still do. If you were a mite too young to appreciate Leibowitz's take on that libertine decade the first time around ("Notes on Trick," anyone?), now is an excellent time to make her acquaintance. The pieces still hold up as good writing and deliver plenty of sharp laughs. Would that we had her jaundiced take on the '90s, which could use some Leibowitz-style deflating. Come back, Fran! Come back! ]]> 31212 3.95 274 26 1994 0 0 false Fri Oct 23 12:12:36 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 16:30:35 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 12:12:36 -0700 2009