New Releases by David Sedaris

Quest''ultima raccolta di racconti di David Sedaris ci fa scoprire le frontiere della landa desolata e bizzarra che è la contemporaneità, di uomini e oggetti così vicini e al contempo così strani. Ma il nucleo attorno al quale è organizzato il libro è il viaggio di David a Tokyo con l''obiettivo di smettere di fumare.

Featuring David Sedaris''s unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed 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 members. With original illustrations by Ian Falconer, author of the bestselling Olivia series of children''s books, these stories are David Sedaris at his most observant, poignant, and surprising.

In David Sedaris''s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris''s collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka ''The Rooster''. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.

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''When apple-picking season ended, I got a Job in a packing plant and gravitated towards short stories, which I could read during my break and reflect upon for the remainder of my shift. A good one would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit . . . Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories can save you''.

Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects.

Herinneringen van een Amerikaanse schrijver aan zijn bizarre, maar innemende familie en over zijn verblijf in Parijs waar hij hilarische pogingen doet om de Franse taal machtig te worden.

Porter un noeud papillon nuit-il gravement à la vie sexuelle? Peut-on larguer son copain quand on ne sait ni cuisiner ni lire un plan? Faut-il avoir peur des microbes dans les salles de cinéma? Complexé, capricieux, névrosé ou exubérant, l''écrivain-comédien épingle l''absurdité des situations les plus banales avec un humour décapant: avis aux amateurs!

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performancesincluding a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinerare unforgettable. Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up; frequently I was helpless. The New York Times Book Review on Naked

In Naked, David Sedaris''s message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me. Whether he''s taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in A Plague of Tics to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means. This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.

David Sedaris''s beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas 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"); and a barnyard secret Santa scheme gone awry ("Cow and Turkey"). No matter what your favorite holiday, you won''t want to miss celebrating it with the author who has been called "one of the funniest writers alive" (Economist).

"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 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. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris''s sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times). 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 Table of Contents: 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 Paris Crybaby Old Faithful The Smoking Section

A satirical look at modern culture.

Autobiografische verhalen over het leven van een 40-jarige Amerikaanse homoseksuele schrijver in Europa.

Un vestido de domingo retoma los elementos clásicos en la narrativa de David Sedaris; la mezcla, en clave humorística, de la ficción y la autobiografía del autor. En esta colección de retratos y anécdotas, Sedaris revela el lado más absurdo de la cotidianidad: se marcha de vacaciones con su familia, asiste a la boda de su hermano, se hace un análisis de sangre, se come una hamburguesa. Todas ellas son actividades perfectamente normales, que no obstante, en el mundo de Sedaris, adquieren una comicidad insospechada. Conocido por las delirantes e impúdicas historias que contaba en un programa de radio americano, Sedaris explica de si mismo que vive ''esperando material'' para sus narraciones, historias que vuelca a sus libros a través de la ironía. Con la lectura de dichas anécdotas es fácil comprender el porqué de su espectacular éxito mundial como humorista. “Uno no es proclive a explicar la carrera de un autor a partir de las excentricidades y los detalles morbosos de su vida personal, pero se siente autorizado a hacer una excepción cuando esas excentricidades y detalles, como en el caso de David Sedaris, son el objeto y razón de ser la su carrera. En resumen: la bomba Sedaris estalló por primera vez en 1993, cuando la National Public Radio empezó a emitir desde Nueva York una serie de extrañas historias donde un limpiador gay de apartamentos, inmigrante griego de segunda generación, con acento de Carolina y una vida laboral atribulada hasta extremos imposibles, narraba episodios descabelladamente impúdicos de su vida. El éxito inverosímil de aquel serial sonrojante puso en alerta a los principales editores del país: ¡un colgado le estaba explicando su vida patética a América y a América le gustaba!” Javier Calvo. “Estaba leyendo a Sedaris en la oficina mientras comía y casi me atraganto de larisa con sus historias, es un escritor fabuloso.” The New York Times Book Review

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 tells a most unconventional life story, beginning with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes and unwanted guitar lessons. From a budding performance artist to "clearly unqualified" writing teacher in Chicago, Sedaris''s career leads him to New York and eventually, of all places, France, where of course he cannot speak the language.

Autobiografisch getinte, vaak humoristische verhalen.

Searis tells a most unconventional life story, beginning with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes and unwanted guitar lessons. From a budding performance artist to "clearly unqualified" writing teacher in Chicago, Sedaris''s career leads him to New York and eventually, of all places, France, where of course he cannot speak the language.

THE STORY: Sister Elizabeth Donderstock is Squeamish, has been her whole life. She makes cheese balls (traditional and smoky) that sustain the existence of her entire religious community, Clusterhaven. However, she feels unappreciated among her Squ

In David Sedaris''s world no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Liebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris''s collection of stories and essays 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 bitter Santa abuses the elves; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral.