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Barrel Feverby David SedarisISBN 0316779423 (0-316-77942-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barrel Fever'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]
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Children Playing Before A Statue Of Herculesby David SedarisISBN 074327394X (0-7432-7394-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children Playing Before A Statue Of Hercules'Book summary:A bestseller in its own right and a must-have for fans of the #1 bestselling author David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction.
David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them. Sometimes, when theyre his very favorite stories, hell fantasize about reading them in front of an audience and taking credit for them. The audience in these fantasies always loves him and gives him the respect he deserves.
David Sedaris didnt write the stories in Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules . But he did read them. And he liked them enough to hand pick them for this collection of short fiction. Featuring such notable writers as Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Jean Thompson, and Tobias Wolff, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules includes some of the most influential and talented short story writers, contemporary and classic.
Perfect for fans who suffer from Sedaris fever, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules will tide them over and provide relief. [via]
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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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Everything That Rises Must Convergeby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0374504644 (0-374-50464-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Flannery O'Connor Collected Worksby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0940450372 (0-940450-37-2)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flannery O'Connor Collected Works'Book summary:Flannery O'Connor, a unique and important figure in the Southern literary tradition, was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. This volume, containing her two novels, short stories, essays and letters, is the only complete collection of her works. [via]
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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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- Holidays on Ice: ISBN 0316779989 (0-316-77998-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - Holidays on Ice: ISBN 0613674545 (0-613-67454-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Holiday on Ice: ISBN 0316191299 (0-316-19129-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co - Holidays on Ice: ISBN 0316779237 (0-316-77923-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
- Holidays on Ice: ISBN 0316779989 (0-316-77998-9)
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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:David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of "SantaLand Diaries," a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's. (It's in two separate collections, both worth owning, Barrel Fever and the Christmas-themed Holidays on Ice.) Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves," he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God," says one. "Then he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber," says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mom and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests."
Every glimpse we get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist ("for whom the word pen had two syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with s sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn't share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong--"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match." As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day's episode.
It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia. The only possible reason not to read this book is if you'd rather hear the author's intrinsically funny speaking voice narrating his story. In that case, get Me Talk Pretty One Day on audio. --Tim Appelo [via]
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- Me Talk Pretty One Day: ISBN 0316777722 (0-316-77772-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - Me Talk Pretty One Day: ISBN 0783892799 (0-7838-9279-9)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co - Me Talk Pretty One Day: ISBN 0783892780 (0-7838-9278-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - Me Talk Pretty One Day: ISBN 0316776963 (0-316-77696-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
- Me Talk Pretty One Day: ISBN 0316777722 (0-316-77772-2)
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Mi vida en rose / Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David SedarisISBN 8497934903 (84-9793-490-3)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humorby Michael J. RosenISBN 0060953217 (0-06-095321-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Nakedby David SedarisISBN 1568954867 (1-56895-486-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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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]
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Je Parler Francaisby David Sedaris, Georges MonnyISBN 2290319740 (2-290-31974-0)
Softcover, J Ai Lu Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Je Parler Francais'Book summary:livre autobiographique quelque peu loufoque sur les tribulations d'un jeune americain en France [via]
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