When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by David Sedaris
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Author: David SedarisReader: Author
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 1600241824
Number of pages: 1
Publisher: Hachette Audio
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Book Review: Sedaris Is Not Sedating
Summary: 5 Stars
David Sedaris somehow knows how to reach back again and again into his personal life and give the reader a public performance that never fails to please. Sitting with Engulfed in Flames has to be like sitting in the den listening to the author craft his experience, word by precise word, until you are on your own carpet with Sedaris's prose poking you in the ribs until you pass out from laughing. His brilliant take on family, his twist on reality, his grasp on just the right phrasem his turning the intimate into the shared -- all of it works like a crazy quilt that engulfs the reader not in flames, but in anti-sedating hysterics even about one's own weird and painful family memories.
Summary of When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He 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 looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. 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 lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny (and never before published) account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated. (2008)Humor Books
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