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When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Paperback By Sedaris, David - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780316154680
- Book Title
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Humor
- Topic
- General, Form / Essays
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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"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
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316154687
ISBN-13
9780316154680
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71667748
Product Key Features
Book Title
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Form / Essays
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Humor
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
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Reviews
What makes Sedaris's work transcendent is its humanity: He adores some truly awful people, yet he invests them with dignity and even grace.... He's the best there is., The preeminent humorist of his generation...His reluctant charm and talent for observing every inch of the human condition remain intact., David Sedaris is horribly observant. He sees things as they are.... He'll be telling some weird story, and all of a sudden, just at the end, it turns out not only to be about him, but also about you., "The preeminent humorist of his generation...His reluctant charm and talent for observing every inch of the human condition remain intact." , Sedaris is certainly worthy of hero worship-he so breezily translates the landscape through his bent, prismatic view that he makes you forget what a skillful narrator he is., It's not just that Sedaris's crisp prose is humorous. What makes his work a consistent joy to read is his deliciously skewed vision of the world, and his deadpan delivery., The Sedaris genius is to be incredibly particular, not to mention peculiar, and yet take fantastic and rapid leaps to the universal. . . . He'll be telling some weird story, and all of a sudden, just at the end, it turns out not only to be about him, but also about you. He's a master at evoking fellow feeling.
Dewey Decimal
814/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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Seller didn't use packing material to secure the bowl gouge, and both the blade of the gouge and sheath are damaged because of how much it jostled in transit. Box was punctured and cut in mutiple areas from the inside due to the gouge slipping out of the sheath, damaging the blade. Reached out to the seller immediately and still no response. Do not recommend.
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