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Underminer : The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life by Virginia Heffernan and Mike Albo (2006, Perfect)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-101596910895

ISBN-139781596910898

eBay Product ID (ePID)48252826

Product Key Features

Book TitleUnderminer : the Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Humorous / General

Publication Year2006

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorVirginia Heffernan, Mike Albo

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight5 oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

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ReviewsAn insincere, name-dropping predator with a rise so meteoric that you' feel like crawling into your sad little apartment and eating gallons of ice cream right out of the carton while sniffling over reruns of old Bette Davis movies., The 'friend' who somehow manages to turn every compliment into an incredibly subtle insult, thus making you wonder whether you are truly the most neurotic person in all of Manhattan--or if your friend is just, well, evil., An ego-skewering, passive-aggressive blowhard of indeterminate gender, surfing annoyingly along the breaking waves of pop and consumer culture--from dot-com to New Age, from hip-hop to a yurt in Afghanistan--always on top and armed with a put-down., A psychological predator of the highest order. A viper cloaked in velvet. The Shaquille O'Neal of schadenfreude., An ego-skewering, passive-aggressive blowhard of indeterminate gender, surfing annoyingly along the breaking waves of pop and consumer culture-from dot-com to New Age, from hip-hop to a yurt in Afghanistan-always on top and armed with a put-down., The person in your life who always does things before you, better than you, and far more profitably than you. The kind of person who manages to express that she cares about you in a way that makes you want to kill yourself., A psychological predator of the highest order. A viper cloaked in velvet. The Shaquille O''Neal of schadenfreude., The 'friend' who somehow manages to turn every compliment into an incredibly subtle insult, thus making you wonder whether you are truly the most neurotic person in all of Manhattan-or if your friend is just, well, evil., The friend' who somehow manages to turn every compliment into an incredibly subtle insult, thus making you wonder whether you are truly the most neurotic person in all of Manhattan-or if your friend is just, well, evil., A character that is so malicious, so insensitive and sadistic, that we can only gape horror-struck as every venomous phrase rolls off her tongue., An insincere, name-dropping predator with a rise so meteoric that 'you' feel like crawling into your sad little apartment and eating gallons of ice cream right out of the carton while sniffling over reruns of old Bette Davis movies.

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisWith this book, Albo and Heffernan channel the hilarious and mysterious evil everyone has encountered--the toxic best friend who slowly and relentlessly dismantles the life of a nameless victim., Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, the Underminer remembers your every foolish ambition and humiliating mistake-- and never fails to remind you. The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend... Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan do us all a public service by capturing the elusive evils of an age-old archetype. To understand and resist "your "toxic friend, you need "The Underminer.", Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, the Underminer remembers your every foolish ambition and humiliating mistake--and never fails to remind you. The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend...Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan do us all a public service by capturing the elusive evils of an age-old archetype. To understand and resist your toxic friend, you need The Underminer.