The Best of Me by David Sedaris
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Product Description
Genius... It is miraculous to read these pieces... You must read The Best of Me. Andrew Sean Greer New York Times Book Review David Sedariss best stories and essays spanning his remarkable careeras selected and read by the author himself. Featuring fresh and classic recordings including a new essay and an interview exclusive to the audiobook. A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice A CNN and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Month For more than twentyfive years David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to listen without laughing. Now for the first time collected in one volume the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work. In these stories Sedaris shops for rare taxidermy hitchhikes with a lady quadriplegic and spits a lozenge into a fellow travelers lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket struggles to say give it to me in five languages and handfeeds a carnivorous bird. But if all you expect to find in Sedariss work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery more fellowfeeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In these essays Sedaris explores falling in love and staying together recognizing his own aging not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings losing one parent and coming to termsat long lastwith the other. Taken together the performances in TheBest of Me reveal the wonder and delight Sedaris takes in the surprises life brings him. No experience he sees is quite as he expectedits often harder more fraught and certainly weirderbut sometimes it is also much richer and more wonderful. Full of joy generosity and the incisive humor that has led David Sedaris to be called the funniest man alive Time Out New York The Best of Me spans a career spent watching and learning and laughingquite often at himselfand invites listeners deep into the world of one of the most brilliant and original writers of our time. The Best of Me AUDIOBOOK TRACK LISTING Introduction new recording From Barrel Fever 1994 Glens Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 2. From Holidays on Ice 1994 Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol new recording Christmas Means Giving new recording From Naked 1997 the incomplete quad new recording From the New Yorker Girl Crazy new recording Card Wired new recording How to Spend the Budget Surplus new recording From Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000 You Cant Kill the Rooster new recording Me Talk Pretty One Day new recording Jesus Shaves new recording From the New Yorker Dog Days new recording From Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Demin 2004 Us and Them Let It Snow The Ship Shape The Girl Next Door Repeat After Me Six to Eight Black Men live recording Possession Nuit of the Living Dead From When You Are Engulfed in Flames 2008 Solution to Saturdays Puzzle live recording The Understudy Town and Country live recording In the Waiting Room live recording From The New Yorker Undecided From Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk 2010 The Cat and the Baboon live recording The Motherless Bear new recording The Faithful Setter new recording From Lets Explore Diabetes with Owls 2013 Dentists Without Borders live recording Memory Laps Think Differenter new recording Loggerheads If I Ruled the World Easy Tiger Laugh Kookaburra live recording Just a Quick eMail A Guy Walks into a Bar Car Standing By live recording Understanding Understanding Owls From Calypso 2019 Now We Are Five A House Divided The Perfect Fit Leviathan A Modest Proposal Why Arent You Laughing The Spirit World From The New Yorker Unbuttoned new recording Audio Exclusive Interview with Paul Constant new recording show more
Condition : New
Author : David Sedaris
Weight : 437.51
Publisher : Little Brown And Company
Language : English
EAN : 9781549139703
ISBN10 : 1549139703
Format : CDAudio
Date of Publication : 20190611
Place of Publication : United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 140 X 152 X 39mm