# The Sound Of No Hands Clapping

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- Authors: [Toby Young](https://www.bookquiver.com/toby-young)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-08-02

## Description

When even his friends refer to him as 'a balding, bug-eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet and an ego the size of a Hercules supply plane,' the odds of Toby Young scoring - in any sense - appear to be slim. But then HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS, his memoir about failing to take Manhattan, becomes an international bestseller. Now Tinseltown beckons. After receiving a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from a Hollywood producer, Toby sets his sights anew on a high-flying career, this time on the West Coast. But it doesn't take long for Toby's self-sabotaging instincts to reassert themselves. On the home front, though, things are looking up: Toby persuades his girlfriend to marry him and move to Los Angeles - but then she decides to abandon her promising legal career in order to become a full-time housewife . . . and mother. Toby's hapless attempts to pursue a glamorous showbiz career while buried in nappies will strike a chord with all modern fathers struggling to find the right work/life balance . . . and with their exasperated wives. Failure - and fatherhood - have never been funnier.

## Editions

### The Sound Of No Hands Clapping

- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4810-985-2
- Published: 2008-09-04
- Language: en_GB

### The Sound Of No Hands Clapping

- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4911-852-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2007-08-02
- Language: en_GB