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What could be a more enticing Christmas gift than a collective work with the best stories of David Sedaris, selected by the author himself? From an impressive career spanning nearly thirty years, these stories have become contemporary classics and are now gathered for the first time in a single volume.
For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has created a unique literary space, almost crafting his own genre. A Sedaris story might seem confessional, but it is also deeply attuned to the world around us. It opens our eyes to the absurd and touching aspects of our everyday existence and is almost impossible to read without laughing. This collection includes the author's funniest and most memorable moments.
In these stories, Sedaris seeks out rare taxidermied animals, hitchhikes with a quadriplegic woman, and spits a candy into the lap of a fellow traveler. He dips a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say "give it to me" in five languages, and hand-feeds a carnivorous bird. However, if you expect to find only the witty and observant comedy for which he is known, you might be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than irony, more compassion than disdain.
In these pages, Sedaris explores love and commitment, recognizes his own aging not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings, loses a parent, and ultimately manages to accept the other. Compiled, the stories in "The Best of Me" reveal Sedaris's wonderful and delightful sense of the surprises life brings him. Every experience, as he sees it, is often harsher, more complex, and certainly odder—but sometimes also much richer and more marvelous.
Full of joy, generosity, and the keen comedy that has led David Sedaris to be called "the funniest person alive" (Time Out New York), "The Best of Me" spans a career that has embraced observation and learning, often laughing at himself, and invites readers deep into the world of one of the most brilliant and original writers of our time.
Manufacturer
- Author
- David Sedaris
- Publisher
- Little Brown Book Group
- Language
- English
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 432
- Type
- Biography
- Publication Date
- 2021
- Dimensions
- 12.6x19.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780349144603
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