When You Are Engulfed in Flames

ISBN 10: 1600241824 ISBN 13: 9781600241826

Casa editrice: VIDB1, 1900

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

There are pages in this short story collection that made me giggle so violently that my lungs hurt (THE TIMES)

He has a lovely, sinuous way of writing, saving the gag until you've forgotten you were expecting one. (SUNDAY TIMES)

Good stuff (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

A humourist in the Woody Allen mould (INDEPENDENT)

Descrizione del libro:

* A brilliant new collection of stories from the number 1 bestselling writer named by TIME magazine as America's Favorite Humorist

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• Editore: VIDB1
• Data di pubblicazione: 1900
• ISBN 10: 1600241824
• ISBN 13: 9781600241826
• Rilegatura: Audio CD
• Numero di pagine: 8