When You Are Engulfed in Flames
New York, NY : Little, Brown, 2008.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.--From publisher description.
Contents:
It's catching -- Aeriel -- All the beauty you will ever need -- Old faithful -- Town and country -- Mementi mori -- Road trips -- Keeping up -- The understudy -- Adult figures charging towards a concrete toadstool -- In the waiting room -- This old house -- Solution to Saturday's puzzle -- The man in the hut -- The monster mash.
ISBN:
9780316143479
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Essays Sed | St. Andrews Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Humor Sed | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/8/2024) |