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He'll be telling some weird story, and all of a sudden, just at the end, it turns out not only to be about him, but also about you., 'The preeminent humorist of his generation.His reluctant charm and talent for observing every inch of the human condition remain intact.' , Sedaris is certainly worthy of hero worship-he so breezily translates the landscape through his bent, prismatic view that he makes you forget what a skillful narrator he is., It's not just that Sedaris's crisp prose is humorous.

He's the best there is., The preeminent humorist of his generation.His reluctant charm and talent for observing every inch of the human condition remain intact., David Sedaris is horribly observant. What makes Sedaris's work transcendent is its humanity: He adores some truly awful people, yet he invests them with dignity and even grace. Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames : 'Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, fies 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 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 ). 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. 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.

'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.

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