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All the Beauty You'Ll Ever Needby David SedarisISBN 0316028118 (0-316-02811-8)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Barrel Feverby David SedarisISBN 0316191280 (0-316-19128-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays'Book summary:A collection of stories and essays by humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris based upon his own experiences and the hidden perversity that can be found in Anytown, U.S.A. Here are images and blasphemies that nice people don't dare look at--blatantly exposed and told with the clear, casual voice of intimate knowledge. Sedaris' humor is born of compassion and his tales range from the sharing of cheery Christmas letters featuring infanticide, to experiences of the Gay and Famous (Charlton Heston and Elizabeth Dole, for example), to the lives of siblings named Hope, Faith, Charity and Adolph and to alcoholics and chain smokers you can laugh with. [via]
The David Sedaris Box Setby David SedarisISBN 0316093890 (0-316-09389-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Company
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denimby David SedarisISBN 0316010790 (0-316-01079-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim'Book summary:It just isnt fair: most of us would be lucky to be able to express ourselves in writing half as well as David Sedaris does in his new book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. But on top of his skills with the written word, the author also has substantial gifts as a performer, and he proves this on the audio version of the book. In his essay The Change in Me,Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people, and its clear that he takes after her. Whether hes doing impressions of high-voiced brother Paul, or recalling times when he and his sisters tried to win good karma by speaking and acting like well-behaved, fairytale children, Sedariss nuanced performance hits the right note on both the opening, comedic stories, and the more poignant essays that tend to come later in the reading. In fact, for those who have already read some of the best stories in other publications including The New Yorker, the CD or cassette version of this collection is probably the best bet for furthering your appreciation of the material.
Sedariss career is closely linked with two things: audio (he was discovered by NPRs Ira Glass), and the personal lives of himself and his family. In Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, he describes fights with his boyfriend, and his sister-in-laws difficult pregnancy. When sister Lisa complains about the stories involving the family, he writes about that, too. Sedaris's latest provides more evidence that he is a great humorist, memoirist and raconteur, and readers are lucky to have the opportunity to know him so well. Perhaps they are luckier still not to know him personally. --Leah Weathersby [via]
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- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: ISBN 0349116709 (0-349-11670-9)
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Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: ISBN 0316143464 (0-316-14346-4)
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Softcover, Little Brown & Co
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: ISBN 0349116709 (0-349-11670-9)
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Holidays on Iceby David SedarisISBN 0316779237 (0-316-77923-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holidays on Ice'Book summary:Holidays on Ice is a collection of three previously published stories matched with three newer ones, all, of course, on a Christmas theme. David Sedaris's darkly playful humor is another common thread through the book, worming its way through "Seasons Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!" a chipper suburban Christmas letter that spirals dizzily out of control, and "Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol," a vicious theatrical review of children's Christmas pageants. As always, Sedaris's best work is his sharply observed nonfiction, notably in "Dinah, the Christmas Whore," the tale of a memorable Christmas during which the young Sedaris learns to see his family in a new light. Worth the price of the book alone is the hilarious "SantaLand Diaries," Sedaris's chronicle of his time working as an elf at Macy's, covering everything from the preliminary group lectures ("You are not a dancer. If you were a real dancer you wouldn't be here. You're an elf and you're going to wear panties like an elf.") to the perils of inter-elf flirtation. Along the way, he paints a funny and sad portrait of the way the countless parents who pass through SantaLand are too busy creating an Experience to really pay attention to their children. In a sly way, it carries a holiday message all its own. Read it aloud to the adults after the kids have gone to bed. --Ali Davis [via]
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Jenny and the Jaws of Lifeby David SedarisISBN 0312306180 (0-312-30618-0)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jenny and the Jaws of Life'Book summary:In these wonderfully funny and poignant stories, Willett's eccentric, complex characters think and do the unconventional. Soft, euphonic women gradually grow old; weak, unhappy men confront love and their own mortality; and abominable children desperately try to grow up with grace. With a unique voice and dry humor, Willett gives us a new insight into human existence, showing us those specific moments in relationships when life suddenly becomes visible.[via]
Critically acclaimed when it was first published in 1987, Jenny and the Jaws of Life is being brought back due to popular demand. It's a timeless collection filled with a certain freshness and wit that ring just as loudly today.More editions of Jenny and the Jaws of Life:
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Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David SedarisISBN 0316776963 (0-316-77696-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Me Talk Pretty One Day'Book summary:"It's a pretty grim world when I can't even feel superior to a toddler." Welcome to the curious mind of David Sedaris, where dogs outrank children, guitars have breasts, and French toddlers unmask the inadequacies of the American male. Sedaris inhabits this world as a misanthrope chronicling all things petty and small. In Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris is as determined as ever to be nobody's hero--he never triumphs, he never conquers--and somehow, with each failure, he inadvertently becomes everybody's favorite underdog. The world's most eloquent malcontent, Sedaris has turned self-deprecation into a celebrated art form--one that is perhaps best experienced in audio. "Go Carolina," his account of "the first battle of my war against the letter s" is particularly poignant. Unable to disguise the lisp that has become his trademark, Sedaris highlights (to hilarious extent) the frustration of reading "childish s-laden texts recounting the adventures of seals or settlers named Sassy or Samuel." Including 23 of the book version's 28 stories, two live performances complete with involuntary laughter, and an uncannily accurate Billie Holiday impersonation, the audio is more than a companion to the text; it stands alone as a performance piece--only without the sock monkeys. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes) --Daphne Durham [via]
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- Me Talk Pretty One Day: ISBN 0349113904 (0-349-11390-4)
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Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited - Me Talk Pretty One Day: ISBN 0316777722 (0-316-77772-2)
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- Me Talk Pretty One Day: ISBN 0349113904 (0-349-11390-4)
Nakedby David SedarisISBN 0316191302 (0-316-19130-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked'Book summary:Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing. [via]
Untitled David Sedaris 3by David SedarisISBN 0316731358 (0-316-73135-8)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Untitled David Sedaris 4by David SedarisISBN 0316731366 (0-316-73136-6)
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When You Are Engulfed in Flamesby David SedarisISBN 0316024597 (0-316-02459-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When You Are Engulfed in Flames'Book summary:"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 ReviewsThis 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." --BooklistTable of Contents:It's CatchingKeeping UpThe UnderstudyThis Old HouseBuddy, Can You Spare a Tie?Road TripsWhat I LearnedThat's AmoreThe Monster MashIn the Waiting RoomSolutions to Saturday's PuzzleAdult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete ToadstoolMemento MoriAll the Beauty You Will Ever NeedTown and CountryAerialThe Man in the HutOf Mice and MenApril in ParisCrybabyOld FaithfulThe Smoking Section [via]
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Un Vestido de Domingoby David SedarisISBN 0307344754 (0-307-34475-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Un Vestido de Domingo'Book summary:Un vestido de domingo retoma los elementos clásicos en la narrativa de David Sedaris; la mezcla, en clave humorística, de la ficción y la autobiografía del autor. En esta colección de retratos y anécdotas, Sedaris revela el lado más absurdo de la cotidianidad: se marcha de vacaciones con su familia, asiste a la boda de su hermano, se hace un análisis de sangre, se come una hamburguesa. Todas ellas son actividades perfectamente normales, que no obstante, en el mundo de Sedaris, adquieren una comicidad insospechada.
Conocido por las delirantes e impúdicas historias que contaba en un programa de radio americano, Sedaris explica de si mismo que vive 'esperando material' para sus narraciones, historias que vuelca a sus libros a través de la ironía. Con la lectura de dichas anécdotas es fácil comprender el porqué de su espectacular éxito mundial como humorista.
Uno no es proclive a explicar la carrera de un autor a partir de las excentricidades y los detalles morbosos de su vida personal, pero se siente autorizado a hacer una excepción cuando esas excentricidades y detalles, como en el caso de David Sedaris, son el objeto y razón de ser la su carrera. En resumen: la bomba Sedaris estalló por primera vez en 1993, cuando la National Public Radio empezó a emitir desde Nueva York una serie de extrañas historias donde un limpiador gay de apartamentos, inmigrante griego de segunda generación, con acento de Carolina y una vida laboral atribulada hasta extremos imposibles, narraba episodios descabelladamente impúdicos de su vida. El éxito inverosímil de aquel serial sonrojante puso en alerta a los principales editores del país: ¡un colgado le estaba explicando su vida patética a América y a América le gustaba! Javier Calvo.
Estaba leyendo a Sedaris en la oficina mientras comía y casi me atraganto de larisa con sus historias, es un escritor fabuloso. The New York Times Book Review [via]More editions of Un Vestido de Domingo:
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