When You Are Engulfed in Flames by Sedaris, David
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by Sedaris, David

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art, (The Christian Science...
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SKU: 9780316024594
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Author: David Sedaris
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Language: English
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames by Sedaris, David

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

€34,69
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by Sedaris, David

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

€34,69
Author: David Sedaris
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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

Author: David Sedaris
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 06/03/2008
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.26h x 6.02w x 1.39d
ISBN: 9780316024594


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2008 pg. 412

About the Author
David Sedaris is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Public Radio International's "This American Life." He is the author of the books Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Barrel Fever.
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