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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9780316143479
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0316143472
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: June 03, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Release Date: June 03, 2008
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.
Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times).
Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames:
"Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus Reviews
This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist
Table of Contents:
It's Catching
Keeping Up
The Understudy
This Old House
Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?
Road Trips
What I Learned
That's Amore
The Monster Mash
In the Waiting Room
Solutions to Saturday's Puzzle
Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool
Memento Mori
All the Beauty You Will Ever Need
Town and Country
Aerial
The Man in the Hut
Of Mice and Men
April in Paris
Crybaby
Old Faithful
The Smoking Section
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This was my first David Sedaris book, I know I've read at least one other article, and I may have read others (but I never paid attention to who the author was). I've read, and heard, that I needed to read some of his other works. The uniqueness of the cover art on his many books makes it easy to remember that his books are all around the bookstores.
So I gave it a try with When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
I enjoyed it, and was surprised later to read that many loyal fans ... Read More
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David has always been funny, but this CD seemed not just funny but insightful and sensitive. He's brillant and human and generous to share his observations with us. I purchased the CD because his inflections and voice imitations provide an extra layer of hilarity. I just hope I don't sit next to him on an airplane!
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Loved this book - absolutely priceless!
The other parents at my son's Tae Kwan Do studio still look at me funny.... ("There's that woman who sits in the corner reading and bursts into laughter every few minutes...").
Ah. Little do they know the wonderful reason...
This book and "Naked" are the only two Sedaris books I've read thusfar; looking forward to reading all of his books.
Sedaris is quite gifted at mining humor from the dry and mundane "everyday" ... Read More
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Probably my least favourite David Sedaris book that I've read but it's still pretty fantastic. Some of the stories are proper laugh-out-loud affairs while others are oddly touching. The last piece, about giving up cigs, feels overly long but stays with you. Sedaris could write pretty much anything and I'd read it. Definitely worth the read but if a gift for a Sedaris newcomer perhaps go for Naked instead.
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3F28BJY8G4FOR Less than two minutes of general impressions from an NPR listener. The reviewer has never read any of Sedaris's other works and had no prior knowledge of the book's plot or premise.
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