Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass,Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
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- ISBN13: 9780451217608
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life-until real life kicked her to the curb.
She had the perfect man, the perfect job-hell, she had the perfect life-and there was no reason to reflect it wouldn’t last. Or maybe there was, but Jen Lancaster was too busy being manicured, pedicured, highlighted, and generally adored to notice.
This is the smart-mouthed, soul-searching tale of a woman trying to figure out what happens next when she’s gone from six facts to unemployment checks and she stops to reconsider some of the less-than-rosy attitudes and values she thought she’d never have to answer for when times were excellent.
Filled with caustic wit and unusual insight, it’s a rollicking read as speedy and unpredictable as the trajectory of a burst balloon.
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Anyone else marvel why so many reviews don’t speak to the book but to how any review that is negative must be fake? Seems the positive reviews are fake. I sincerely hope so because no one in their right mind would EVER say this book is the most amusing, best book they ever read.
Accept that there are many many people that find Jen Lancaster’s writing and persona annoying. Many people that don’t know how she got a book published. many people who have every right to prompt this opinion. As do you have every right to lie about how wonderful the book is.
For me, I watch as the Jen Lancaster employees keep writing fake reviews and marvel at how pathetic that is. Everyone is allowed their opinion. Haven’t you learned that yet? My opinion is this book isn’t worth the paper it is written on. If Penguin didn’t agree, they’d place her next book out in hardcover. Ever marvel why that isn’t happening?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
From Publishers Weekly
…she doesn’t come off as straightforward, just malicious. (Of course, it’s possible she’s building up much of her dialogue, which is a small too clever to be believable.)
Lancaster…relies on entries from her blog
it’s not clear that she’s been as chastised by her experiences as she claims.
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SMASHING!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was agreed this book by a publishing friend as an example of how not to write a book. This book seemed like one of persons so terrible it is excellent movies but never got anywhere but horrendous. Penguin publishing is embarrassed to have published this. The inside joke around the Co. is effective with “Jennsylvania” was like playing with a retarded puppy. You try to be nice knowing it has no choice but to be pathetic.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I remember reading the absolutely horrific review Publisher’s Weekly gave BITTER IS THE NEW BLACK and thinking “Please if there is a God don’t theme any additional leader to such embarrassment”. Then I read the book and establish it atrociously written. I pondered, why should I write a negative review about it? Didn’t my family tree teach me if I didn’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all? Is there a greater purpose for opining about the poor sentence structure, the disjointed storytelling, the endless bantering of self importance?
No, a right gentleman would just let it go.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Hardly worth me writing a review. If the Publisher’s Weekly review they have to place on this page which said this book was terrible doesn’t tell you something, you deserve to waste your money.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5