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When You Are Engulfed in Flames By David Sedaris ( Little, Brown and Company )
Release Date: 2008-06-03
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Product 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
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 Don't waste your money
Read about half the book. I kept waiting for something funny, but it never came. Wow, how long can someone babble on about his parents and art!
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Great Sedaris - Had me laughing out loud several times!
This book was in typical Sedaris fashion - shocking statements in a deadpan manner. I thought this book, however, had stories which made me cringe more than his other works (the guinea worm to name one). Still a great read. I was trying to make it last as long as I could!
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 Screamingly delightful ( bubba9052 )
As I've only read one other of David Sedaris's books, Me Talk Pretty, I found this one just as entertaining if not more so. The man has a style of writing that is vivid and infinitely amusing. I await the next addition to this author's body of work.
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Another Future Classic
David Sedaris is probably one of the most iconic writers of this generation.
He continues to amuse the masses with this book. With a strong similarity to Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris tells a few stories of his childhood but focuses on his adult life.
A must read for the "laugh out loud" crowd, Sedaris continues to be an amazing humorist and author.
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Loved it!!
A bit dark but always thoughtful and funny inspite of the pain he goes through.
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