Authors: David Sedaris
ISBN-13: 9780316779425, ISBN-10: 0316779423
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Date Published: June 1995
Edition: Reprint
Starting with his deadpan, disarmingly funny pieces on NPR and continuing with his collections of short fiction and essays, David Sedaris is one of the best, sharpest humorists writing today. His quirky history and family are rich material, but he's also just as hilarious simply satirizing Christmas cards or mocking his own vices.
In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.
`Morning Edition' commentator Sedaris presents a satirical collection of stories about contemporary American society. (June)
Parade | 3 | |
Music for Lovers | 12 | |
The Last You'll Hear from Me | 18 | |
My Manuscript | 22 | |
Firestone | 31 | |
We Get Along | 38 | |
Glen's Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2 | 58 | |
Don's Story | 67 | |
Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!! | 77 | |
Jamboree | 95 | |
After Malison | 112 | |
Barrel Fever | 126 | |
Diary of a Smoker | 151 | |
Giantess | 155 | |
The Curly Kind | 161 | |
SantaLand Diaries | 167 |