Snobs: The Classic Guidebook to Your Friends, Your Enemies, Your Colleagues, and Yourself - Softcover

Lynes, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006170640X ISBN 13: 9780061706400

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2009

Synopsis

In this classic work by the renowned wit and pundit whom the New York Times has lauded as "one of America's foremost arbiters of taste and mores . . . an acclaimed expert on what was highbrow, what was lowbrow, and what was no brow at all," the inimitable Russell Lynes flaunts (rather snobbishly, perhaps) his unparalleled expertise on all things snobbish. Since the Social Snob—with his raised nostrils and air of intolerable intolerance—has long since gone underground, it falls to a true connoisseur to identify the myriad faces of snobbery. Whether it be the Regional, Political, or Moral Snob, the Sensual or Sex Snob, or that most virulent of genus, the Reverse or Anti-Snob Snob, Lynes shines an illuminating light that will enable us to more easily recognize the pervasive pretentiousness surrounding us . . . and perhaps within us as well.

About this title

Product Description:

In this humorous look at the phenomenon of snobbery, Lynes begins by stating, 'the social snob, while not extinct, has gone underground (except for professionals such as headwaiters and metropolitan hotel room-clerks), and snobbery has emerged in a whole new set of guises'. He playfully skewers the many types that have since emerged, from Emotional Snobs to Sensual, Political, Taste, Regional, and Reverse Snobs. In vivid characterizations that run the gamut, Lynes' cutting wit brings out his contemporaries' foibles with humor and elan. It includes a number of illustrative drawings by Robert Olson.

Review:

“One of America’s foremost arbiters of taste and mores. . . . Essayist, social historian, photographer and Renaissance man, Mr. Lynes was an acclaimed expert on what was highbrow, what was lowbrow and what was no brow at all.” (New York Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 006170640X
• ISBN 13: 9780061706400
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80