Master of nothing, at the dead center of his game, Sedaris proves that when you play with matches, you sometimes light the whole pack on fire. Also recounted is the buying of a human skeleton and the author's attempt to quit smoking In Tokyo. Subjects include a parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the recreational use of an external catheter. Author of the national bestsellers Should You Be Attacked By Snakes and If You Are Surrounded by Mean Ghosts, David Sedaris, with When You Are Engulfed in Flames, is clearly at the top of his game.ĭavid Sedaris has written yet another book of essays (his sixth). David Sedaris has studied this phenomenon, and his resulting insights may very well save your life. When set on fire, most of us either fumble for our wallets or waste valuable time feeling sorry for ourselves. From the shining notorious East Side, When You Are Engulfed in Flames confirms once again that David Sedaris is a master of mystery and suspense. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them returns home Chesney Yelverton is coaxed from retirement and assigned to what proves to be the most difficult and deadly - case of his career. Sedaris 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.
Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 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. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris Collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. that involves a thermos - David Sedaris." *Title page has been signed & inscribed by author as follows "To Abe + Tara, Try anything once. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths.FIRST EDITION / FOURTH PRINTING LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina.
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