When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by David Sedaris
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Author: David SedarisEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 0316143472
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Book Review: Too funny not to be read!
Summary: 5 Stars
David Sedaris takes the littlest things and turns them into full stories with wit, humor (albeit a little dark - OK a lot dark!), sadness, and sometimes head-shaking ridiculousness! He says what we are thinking but would never say - with simplicity and reckless abandon. His story about racing an unsuspecting woman in the pool was laugh-out-loud funny. Sitting, reading a book, laughing out loud - that just doesn't happen, but it does with this book. You won't be sorry!
Summary of When You Are Engulfed in Flames
"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
Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames:
"Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus Reviews
This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist
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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
Solutions 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
Crybaby
The Smoking Section
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