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When You are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris
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Description for When You are Engulfed in Flames
Paperback. A hilarious and clever book about modern life from the No.1 best selling writer. A hilarious and clever book about modern life from the No.1 best selling writer. Num Pages: 320 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: BG; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories.
Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds - to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo and the purchase ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349116471
SKU
V9780349116471
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-97
About David Sedaris
David Sedaris is the author of twelve previous books, including, most recently, A Carnival of Snackery, The Best of Me, and Calypso. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the ... Read more
Reviews for When You are Engulfed in Flames
A virtual Klondike of darkly glittering anecdotes.
Adam Mars-Jones, Observer
'Sedari s' anecdotes play off his sublime talent for turning the absurdly neurotic into the hilariously funny.
GQ
Howlingly funny, jaw-snappingly honest and endlessly perceptive... Sedari s' wellspring of quirky yet strangely universal comic experiences show no sign of drying up.
Tom Cox, Daily Mail ... Read more
Adam Mars-Jones, Observer
'Sedari s' anecdotes play off his sublime talent for turning the absurdly neurotic into the hilariously funny.
GQ
Howlingly funny, jaw-snappingly honest and endlessly perceptive... Sedari s' wellspring of quirky yet strangely universal comic experiences show no sign of drying up.
Tom Cox, Daily Mail ... Read more