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I Was Told There'd Be Cake | 
 enlarge | Author: Sloane Crosley
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Category: Book
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Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 795
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 159448306X
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.6
EAN: 9781594483066
ASIN: 159448306X
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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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.
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 Just Browsing October 9, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was just browsing in one of the airport book shops with no plans to purchase a book. I am in recovery from an eating disorder and when I saw this title it immediately drew me to the book. I started reading it and from the very first paragraph I could relate, not in a recovered eating disorder way but in a life way. I remembered when I myself lived in New York, it brought back so many of those teenaged memories. I had to buy it. I read the book by the time my trip was over. I loved it and would reccomend it to any female who is looking for those fun reminders of growing up and becomming a young adult.
Recommended May 29, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is like reading a diary from that quirky, way too cool friend you always wished you had. Sloane Crosley is obviously a person who is full of life and fun to be around. I found myself chuckling constantly as I read about her travails in New York and her odd personality quirks (dioramas, anyone?).
As essay collections go (and there are plenty, from folks like Sarah Vowell to David Rakoff to Sandra Tsing-Loh), this is one of the best. Well worth the time.
Fantastic Reading for a Light Dinner Alone May 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Bravo to Sloane Crosley, who has achieved an incredibly high sales ranking for her debut book. This collection of humorous and sometimes-surprisingly-insightful essays has the sort of edge that cuts profoundly with anyone who has a funny bone, remembers their 20s, or simply refuses to grow older than twenty four in their minds. It's best read alone where you can laugh out loud as long and hard as you want; I recommend over a light dinner alone, when you can mindlessly chew in one world while cavhorting through another with a fantastic, fresh new tour guide.
Did her parents read this book? June 23, 2008
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
Life of a twenty-something in contemporary New York City must be a moveable feast, for there appear to be a plethora of books of non-fiction detailing all of the odd, amusing and not so amusing incidents of that way of life. I found it amazing that the author had so many different roommates, all of them male, and they almost were non-entities in the book. The incidents were chuckle-causing, and even though I'm way beyond the age of the author, I did enjoy the book very much, and perhaps with a bit of envy for a life I never led!
Very Funny December 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved "I was told there'd be cake" every essay was funny and I recommend it! Similar to bust magazine and funny ladies like Jenny McCarthy, Chelsea Handler and Margaret Cho. Can't wait for her next book!
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