Would you like to see this page in English? Click here.

 

ou
Ouvrez une session pour activer Commander en 1-Click.
 
 
D'autres produits offerts
26 neufs & d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 5.89
Vous en avez un à vendre?
Vendez les vôtres ici
 
   
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
 
 
Partagez vos propres images client
Cherchez à l'intérieur de ce livre

I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Paperback)

de Sloane Crosley (Author) "As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the..." En savoir plus
4.0étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (2 évaluations de client)
Prix éditeur: CDN$ 15.50
Price: CDN$ 11.32 & se qualifie pour Livraison super-économique GRATUITE pour des commandes de plus de CDN$ 39. Détails
Vous économisez : CDN$ 4.18 (27%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
En stock.
Vendu et expédié par Amazon.ca.

Commandez-vous pour Noël? Pour livraison garantie le 24 décembre à Toronto, à Ottawa, ou à Montréal, choisissez Express lors de votre commande. En savoir plus.

18 neufs à partir de CDN$ 5.89 8 d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 7.40

Produits fréquemment achetés ensemble

I Was Told There'd Be Cake + When You Are Engulfed in Flames + Me Talk Pretty One Day
Prix public : CDN$ 50.48
Prix pour les trois: CDN$ 36.85

Afficher la disponibilité du produit et le mode de livraison

  • Cet article : I Was Told There'd Be Cake de Sloane Crosley

    En stock.
    Vendu et expédié par Amazon.ca.
    Se qualifie pour Livraison super-économique GRATUITE pour des commandes de plus de CDN$ 39. Détails

  • When You Are Engulfed in Flames de David Sedaris

    En stock.
    Vendu et expédié par Amazon.ca.
    Se qualifie pour Livraison super-économique GRATUITE pour des commandes de plus de CDN$ 39. Détails

  • Me Talk Pretty One Day de David Sedaris

    En stock.
    Vendu et expédié par Amazon.ca.
    Se qualifie pour Livraison super-économique GRATUITE pour des commandes de plus de CDN$ 39. Détails

Les clients qui ont acheté cet article ont aussi acheté

Straight Up And Dirty: A Memoir

Straight Up And Dirty: A Memoir

de Stephanie Klein
5.0étoiles sur 5 (1)  CDN$ 13.86
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

de Chelsea Handler
3.3étoiles sur 5 (3)  CDN$ 18.26
My Horizontal Life

My Horizontal Life

de Chelsea Handler
3.4étoiles sur 5 (8)  CDN$ 12.37
When You Are Engulfed in Flames

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

de David Sedaris
4.0étoiles sur 5 (9)  CDN$ 13.13
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

de Amy Sedaris
4.2étoiles sur 5 (4)  CDN$ 13.13
› Découvrez des articles similaires

Les détails du produit

Descriptions du produit

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. This debut essay collection is full of sardonic wit and charm, and Crosley effortlessly transforms what could have been stereotypical tales of mid-20s life into a breezy series of vignettes with uproariously unpredictable outcomes. From the opening The Pony Problem to the hilarious Bring-Your-Machete-to-Work Day (which will ring true for any child of the early 1990s who played the first Oregon Trail computer game), Crosley is equal parts self-deprecating and endearing as she recounts her secret obsession with plastic ponies and the joys of exacting revenge via a pixilated wagon ride. In less capable hands, the subjects tackled—from unpleasant weddings of long-forgotten friends to horrendous first jobs—could have been a litany of complaints from yet another rich girl from the suburbs. But Crosley, who grew up in Westchester and currently lives in Manhattan, makes the experiences her own with a plethora of amusing twists: a volunteer job at the American Museum of Natural History leads to a moral quandary, and a simple Upper West Side move becomes anything but. Fans of Sarah Vowell's razor-sharp tongue will love this original new voice. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


Product Description

Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of intentions-or perhaps because of them. Together, these essays create a startlingly funny and revealing portrait of a complex and utterly recognizable character that's aiming for the stars but hits the ceiling, and the inimitable city that has helped shape who she is. I Was Told There'd Be Cake introduces a strikingly original voice, chronicling the struggles and unexpected beauty of modern urban life.
Dans ce livre (les détails)
First Sentence
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day. Lire la première page
Parcourir les pages échantillon
Plat recto | Droit d'auteur | Table des matières | Extrait | Plat verso
Cherchez à l'intérieur de ce livre:

Mots-clés inspirés de produits similaires

 (De quoi s'agit-il ?)
Soyez le premier à ajouter un mot-clé pertinent (fortement associé à ce produit)
 
(2)
(1)
(1)

Vos mots-clés : Ajouter votre premier mot-clé
 
Voir les mots-clés les plus populaires

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

I Was Told There'd Be Cake
55% buy the item featured on this page:
I Was Told There'd Be Cake 4.0étoiles sur 5 (2)
CDN$ 11.32
My Horizontal Life
16% buy
My Horizontal Life 3.4étoiles sur 5 (8)
CDN$ 12.37
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
13% buy
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea 3.3étoiles sur 5 (3)
CDN$ 18.26
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
10% buy
When You Are Engulfed in Flames 4.0étoiles sur 5 (9)
CDN$ 13.13
Découvrez des articles similaires
 

L'avis des consommateurs

2 évaluations
5 étoiles:    (0)
4 étoiles:
 (2)
3 étoiles:    (0)
2 étoiles:    (0)
1 étoiles:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Évaluation du client type
4.0étoiles sur 5 (2 évaluations de client)
 
 
 
 
Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients:
Commentaires client les plus utiles

 
3 internautes sur 3 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
4.0étoiles sur 5 "I had always chalked up my feelings of isolation as a child to being a child", Nov. 14 2008
Par Linda Bulger (Avon, Maine) - Voir tous mes commentaires
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

If you have American kids -- or may have them someday -- did you ever think of raising them in an interesting foreign country so they could come back as teens with a high coolness quotient? No? Would you send a Jewish ten-year-old to a Christian summer camp? and if you did, would you be surprised to hear that she played Mary in the "Christmas in July" pageant after the blond Girl from Darien was hobbled by a broken toe? Is there a collection of anything in your kitchen drawers, let's say toy ponies for example, that you worry about your mother finding if you die unexpectedly? and if so, would you dispose of them on a Brooklyn-bound subway train? Have you ever locked yourself out on moving day, from both old AND new apartments, requiring two expensive calls to the same sarcastic locksmith?

No? Then you're not like Sloane Crosley, the twenty-something author of "I Was Told There'd Be Cake." This little book of wildly assorted essays is a kind of cubist blueprint for the young, well-off, well-educated New York woman. Crosley's writing is irreverent about her family ("I have never met two people more afraid of their house burning down than my parents") and particularly about her (we hope) well-disguised friends. She says of a pair of dinner guests: "Because there are no more hippies, you don't call them hippies. (But if you ever saw two people on a beach, gorging themselves on whole-wheat burritos and pot, picking sand out of each other's toes, and diving into the water naked, that would be them.)"

You may wonder whether you care about Sloane Crosley's observations on her short life to date. That's one question I can't answer for you. I will tell you that while her experiences may be alien to anything you have ever done, thought or felt, the girl can write intelligently and with great humor; there are unifying principles in the human existence and she catalogs a subset of them very well . We're bound to hear more from this young writer, and if she brings her sardonic wit to deeper subjects it will be very well worth reading. This book was an entertaining look at her world. One star off for the essay format, as I believe her book would have been better served by a more linear memoir format.

Linda Bulger, 2008
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non (Signaler ce commentaire)



 
3 internautes sur 3 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
4.0étoiles sur 5 Seriously hilarious essays, Aoû 15 2009
Par J. Tobin Garrett (Vancouver, BC) - Voir tous mes commentaires
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   
Sloane Crosley has written herself a seriously funny collection of essays that deserves to be up there with David Sedaris, if just a shelf lower. She's young (26ish?) but that doesn't mean she has nothing to say about her life so far. Her observations of the world around her (New York) and herself (self-deprecating and honest) are what make this collection not only funny, but more than something superficial. She has the courage to reveal a lot of herself to her readers, and poke fun in the process. And, although this kind of self-deprecating style can come off as pompous in other essayists (I think here of Augusten Burroughs), she manages to keep it under wraps.

There are a few times when her attempts at going a bit deeper than the surface fall flat and come off as a bit forced, her point hammered home just a tad too hard. And there were a few times when I felt myself wishing that the pace was a bit quicker, some of the essays going on a bit too long (her stint as a bridesmaid comes to mind here). But there were many times when I laughed out loud, particularly in the essay about how she locked herself out of two separate apartments on moving day.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this and look forward to another collection.
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non (Signaler ce commentaire)


Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients: Créer votre propre commentaire
 
 
Rechercher uniquement sur les commentaires portant sur ce produit


Listmania!

Créer une liste thématique Listmania!

Cherchez des articles semblables par catégorie

Chercher des articles semblables par sujet







c.-à-d., chaque book doit correspondre au sujet 1 ET au sujet 2 ET ...

Commentaires

Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?

Votre historique récent

 (En savoir plus)

Après avoir visualisé des pages détaillées produit ou des résultats de recherche, regardez ici pour trouver une façon simple de poursuivre votre navigation sur des pages qui vous intéressent.