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Availability:In StockContributor:David SedarisPublish date:2008-06-03Pages:512
Language:EnglishPublisher:Little Brown and CompanyISBN-13:9780316024594ISBN-10:316024597UPC:9780316024594Book Category:HumorBook Subcategory:FormBook Topic:EssaysSize:8.26 x 6.02 x 1.39 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCXRGG1DEF

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

David Sedaris's sixth essay collection showcases his signature ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art. This masterpiece of comic writing features 22 essays that proceed from bizarre daily conundrums to deeply resonant human truths.

What's Inside This Collection

The essays range from attempting to make coffee when the water is shut off—leading to considerations of using flower vase water—to uncomfortable memories of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. Sedaris navigates absurd situations like having a lozenge fall from your mouth into a fellow passenger's lap on a plane, or armoring windows with LP covers to protect against neurotic songbirds.

The collection culminates in a brilliant account of Sedaris's venture to Tokyo specifically to quit smoking, providing both humor and insight into personal transformation.

Critical Acclaim

"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

Language:EnglishPublisher:Little Brown and CompanyISBN-13:9780316024594ISBN-10:316024597UPC:9780316024594Book Category:HumorBook Subcategory:FormBook Topic:EssaysSize:8.26 x 6.02 x 1.39 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCXRGG1DEF

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

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
Publisher: Little Brown and Company

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David Sedaris

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