Book description
Bored, broke and struggling to survive in one of the most expensive
cities on earth, Paul Carr comes to the surprising realisation that it
would actually be cheaper to live in a hotel in Manhattan than in his
one-bedroom London flat. Inspired by that possibility, he decides to
sell most of his possessions, abandon his old life and spend a year
living entirely without commitments, as a modern-day nomad. Thanks to
Paul's highly developed blagging skills, what begins as a one-year
experiment soon becomes a permanent lifestyle - a life lived in luxury
hotels and mountain-top villas. A life of fast cars, Hollywood actresses
and Icelandic rock stars. Of 6,000-mile booty calls, of partying with
800 female hairdressers dressed only in bedsheets, and of nearly dying
at the hands of Spanish drug dealers. And, most bizarrely of all, a life
that still costs less than surviving on cold pizza in London. Yet, as
word of Paul's exploits starts to spread - first online, then through a
newspaper column and eventually a book deal - he finds himself forced
constantly to up the stakes in order to keep things interesting. With
his behaviour spiralling to dangerous - and sometimes criminal - levels,
he is forced to ask the question: is there such a thing as too much
freedom? Paul Carr is a writer and journalist, specialising in media
and popular culture. A former Guardian media columnist, he also edited
various publications and founded numerous businesses with varying
degrees of abysmal failure. After getting fired from every job he'd ever
had - including at least two where he was his own boss - he realised it
was easier to write about other people's success than to have any of his
own. As the co-founder of two Internet companies he knows the world of
Internet moguls both inside and out.
