Metropolitan Life (book)

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Metropolitan Life is a 1978 book by American writer Fran Lebowitz. It is a collection of satirical essays about life in New York City and was Lebowitz's first book. Many of the essays had previously appeared in Interview and Mademoiselle, where Lebowitz had established a reputation for her sardonic observations on contemporary urban life. The book offers a comic view of the manners, habits, and pretensions of life in a large city. Published by E.P. Dutton, Metropolitan Life was an instant success, becoming a New York Times bestseller. It was later released in a 1994 compilation titled The Fran Lebowitz Reader along with Lebowitz's 1981 essay collection Social Studies.

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