Calypso

Calypso

by David Sedaris
Calypso

Calypso

by David Sedaris

Paperback(Reprint)

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Overview

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.

If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.

When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself.

With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny—it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future.

This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet—and it just might be his very best.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316392426
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 06/04/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 37,501
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

About The Author
David Sedaris is the author of the books Theft by Finding,Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays on Ice, Naked, and Barrel Fever. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. He lives in England.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

December 26, 1956

Place of Birth:

Johnson City, New York

Education:

B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987

Table of Contents

Company Man 3

Now We Are Five 15

Little Guy 33

Stepping Out 41

A House Divided 51

The Perfect Fit 67

Leviathan 79

Your English Is So Good 95

Calypso 107

A Modest Proposal 119

The Silent Treatment 129

Untamed 145

The One(s) Who Got Away 157

Sorry 161

Boo-Hooey 177

A Number of Reasons I've Been Depressed Lately 185

Why Aren't You Laughing? 195

I'm Still Standing 211

The Spirit World 225

And While You're Up There, Check On My Prostate 239

The Comey Memo 245

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