When You Are Engulfed in Flames
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008.
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 323 pages ; 22 cm
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 -- 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 -- Solution 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.
ISBN:
9780316032513 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
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Electronic reproduction. [New York] : Little, Brown and Company, 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires Adobe Digital Editions.
Electronic reproduction. [New York] : Little, Brown and Company, 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires Adobe Digital Editions.