Barrel Fever
$23.92
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2006
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349119762 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349119767 |
| Author: | David Sedaris |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 179g |
| Dimensions: | 128mm x 199mm x 17mm |
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I don’t very often find myself moved by a book to emit loud noises in public, but when I first read David Sedaris’s essays and short stories, they made me laugh so hard I had to stop taking them on the tube. All his collections are good but ‘Barrel Fever - is the best’
#NAME? - ‘A satirical brazenness that holds up next to Twain and Nathaneal West’New YORKER - ‘David and Amy Sedaris have a deadpan delivery as ironic as the words they read. The two of them create a nuclear barrage of humour you could never reBOSTON GlobeAbout The Author
David Sedaris
David Sedaris lives in Paris. Raised in North Carolina, he has worked as a housecleaner and most famously, as a part-time elf for Macy s. Several of his plays have been produced and he is a regular contributor to Esquire and Public Radio International s ‘This American Life’.
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