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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Back Bay Books: June 1995

Seller ID: 241204

ISBN: 0316779423

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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 wi...
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David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium

By: David Sedaris,Jeffrey Jenkins

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: October 2017

Seller ID: 253634

ISBN: 0316431710

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

A remarkable illustrated volume of artwork and images selected from the diaries David Sedaris has been creating for four decades
In this richly illustrated book, readers will for the first time experience the diaries David Sedaris has kept for nearly 40 years in the elaborate, three-dimensional, collaged style of the originals. A celebration of the unexpected in the everyday, the beautiful and the grotesque, this visual compendium offers unique insight into the author's view of the world and stands as a striking and collectible volume in itself.
Compiled and edited by Sedaris's ...
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

By: David Sedaris

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Back Bay Books: May 2005

Seller ID: 18082

ISBN: 0316010790

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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...
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

By: David Sedaris

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Back Bay Books: May 2005

Seller ID: 95875

ISBN: 0316010790

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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...
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Holidays on Ice

By: David Sedaris

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Back Bay Books: October 2010

Seller ID: 252195

ISBN: 0316078913

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ("Six to Eight Black Men"); what Halloween at the medical examiner's looks like ("The Monster Mash");...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Back Bay Books: June 2001

Seller ID: 174925

ISBN: 0316776963

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked," presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.
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Naked

By: David Sedaris

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: June 1998

Seller ID: 205463

ISBN: 0316777730

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course ) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's u...
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Naked

By: David Sedaris

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Back Bay Books: June 1998

Seller ID: 212181

ISBN: 0316777730

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course ) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's u...
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

By: David Sedaris

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company: June 2014

Seller ID: 232197

ISBN: 1478930233

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: New - New

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new illustrated collection of animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.
In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family me...
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

By: David Sedaris

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: October 2011

Seller ID: 259516

ISBN: 0316038407

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new illustrated collection of animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.
In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family me...
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

By: David Sedaris

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Back Bay Books: October 2011

Seller ID: 264913

ISBN: 0316038407

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new illustrated collection of animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.
In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family me...
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: June 2009

Seller ID: 281325

ISBN: 0316154687

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.
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. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge f...
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