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- Format: Hardcover Learn more about the Hardcover format using Tower WIKI.
- Number of Pages: 288
- ISBN: 0316143472
- WAPI (Tower ID): 111772492
- Release Date: June 3, 2008
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Average Customer Review:
(2 customer reviews)
- Tower.com Sales Rank: #70 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #1 in Humor (See Top 100 Humor Bestsellers)
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David Sedaris (Author)
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Review
"Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life....Just when Sedaris seems to have disappeared down the rabbit hole of ironic introspection, he delivers a cracking blow of insight that leaves you reeling." (starred review)
Publisher's note
A new collection of essays by the author of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim celebrates the foibles of his everyday life in France and America, from an attempt to make coffee with water in a flower vase to a drug purchase in a North Carolina mobile home.
Annotation
The arch and bemused essayist David Sedaris returns with another collection of humorous pieces that delight in the inanity of contemporary life. Topics for consideration include his family's horror at his depictions of them in his books, a randy tow-trucker driver, and his misadventures and misunderstandings in Paris, London, and Japan as he travels around with his lover Hugh. Though his tone is acidic to the point of cruelty, Sedaris' essays are at their finest when elements of desperate pathos and surprising sentimentality break through the witty veneer. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, his sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing.
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Customer Reviews for "When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)" by
David Sedaris (Author)
Most Recent Customer Reviews  This book has broken my Dry Spell, July 9, 2008
By totallyadmired
For the past several months, I have not been able to commit either time or
energy to a good book (a fact which I have been fairly distraught about!) until
I picked up a copy of this new Sedaris collection. This book goes everywhere
with me - the subway ride to work, lazy sunday mornings on the back patio, I
have even taken to listen to the audio version while at work and laughing so
hard that I startle my co-workers.
The best thing about David Sedaris is that
you can pick up any one of his essay collections and dive in - there is no need
for starting in sequence or back fact-checking. He is a masterful storyteller
capable of making even the most mundane incidents hilarious!
I highly recommend
the essay entitled "Town and Country" which is included in this collection.
great collection, July 8, 2008
By oliver
this is a very humorous collection of essays by david sedaris. his humour is dry
but truthful to the human existence. get your hands on something by this author.
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