When You Are Engulfed in Flames

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

by David Sedaris
When You Are Engulfed in Flames

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

by David Sedaris

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Overview

"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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316154680
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 06/02/2009
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 143,798
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

About The Author
David Sedaris is the author of the books 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 Public Radio International's "This American Life."

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


It's Catching     3
Keeping Up     11
The Understudy     20
This Old House     33
Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?     49
Road Trips     63
What I Learned     73
That's Amore     82
The Monster Mash     109
In the Waiting Room     117
Solution to Saturday's Puzzle     125
Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool     135
Memento Mori     148
All the Beauty You Will Ever Need     158
Town and Country     166
Aerial     176
The Man in the Hut     183
Of Mice and Men     195
April in Paris     205
Crybaby     217
Old Faithful     228
The Smoking Section     240
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