Authors: David Sedaris
ISBN-13: 9780316010795, ISBN-10: 0316010790
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Date Published: May 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.
Sedaris, humorist and author of the best-selling Me Talk Pretty One Day, once again exhibits his knack for spinning unsettling experiences into pure comic gold.Allison Block
Us and them | 3 | |
Let it snow | 13 | |
The ship shape | 17 | |
Full house | 30 | |
Consider the stars | 42 | |
Monie changes everything | 54 | |
The change in me | 72 | |
Hejira | 87 | |
Slumus Lordicus | 91 | |
The girl next door | 105 | |
Blood work | 123 | |
The end of the affair | 137 | |
Repeat after me | 141 | |
Six to eight black men | 157 | |
Rooster at the hitchin' post | 165 | |
Possession | 180 | |
Put a lid on it | 188 | |
A can of worms | 205 | |
Chicken in the henhouse | 211 | |
Who's the chef? | 225 | |
Baby Einstein | 231 | |
Nuit of the living dead | 246 |