A dazzling collection
Mail on Sunday
A dazzling collection
Mail on Sunday
Romantic, shocking and punctuated with the kind of funnies that, if you're reading while eating, make you snort food through your nose
Lisa Gee
Independent
There are lines that go off like firecrackers, storing up their hilarity until the last moment, and there are the one he lobs like little grenades amid the chaos and merriment
David Shariatmadari
Guardian
There are sudden moments of honest, revelation and frailty . . . Long may he write and long may the 'Indefinite Leave' sticker remain in the once stolen and now returned passport of this honorary Briton
Viv Groskop
Telegraph
Brilliantly clever, inventive and funny
Guardian
Treat yourself to this sparkling collection of essays . . . You'll gurgle with laughter or cringe in recognition of uncomfortable truths. Sedaris . . . can identify with almost any absurd situation and wring the last drop of wit from it, but he is also the master of elegantly crafted sentences that simultaneously convey vulnerability, compassion, cruelty and glee . . . polished to perfection
Daily Mail
Thoughtful, witty, excitable, world-weary, romantic, fastidious . . . creating waves of sympathy and wry humour, as though a rather amazing stranger is addressing you and you alone
Susie Boyt
Financial Times
Biting, intimate anecdotes from America's finest humorist
Daily Telegraph
Consistently laugh-out-loud funny, Sedaris' pieces are self-obsessed, shocking, wonderfully sustained and closely observed . . . What can happen to anybody becomes darkly hilarious with Sedaris
Independent