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* Hardcover: 272 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.97 x 8.60 x 5.72
* Publisher: Little, Brown; (June 1, 2004)
* ISBN: 0316143464
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In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart. This is not to suggest that the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and other bestselling books has lost his edge. The 27 essays here (many previously published in Esquire, G.Q. or the New Yorker, or broadcast on NPR's This American Life) include his best and funniest writing yet. Here is Sedaris's family in all its odd glory. Here is his father dragging his mortified son over to the home of one of the most popular boys in school, a boy possessed of "an uncanny ability to please people," demanding that the boy's parents pay for the root canal that Sedaris underwent after the boy hit him in the mouth with a rock. Here is his oldest sister, Lisa, imploring him to keep her beloved Amazon parrot out of a proposed movie based on his writing. (" 'Will I have to be fat in the movie?' she asked.") Here is his mother, his muse, locking the kids out of the house after one snow day too many, playing the wry, brilliant commentator on his life until her untimely death from cancer. His mother emerges as one of the most poignant and original female characters in contemporary literature. She balances bitter and sweet, tart and rich—and so does Sedaris, because this is what life is like. "You should look at yourself," his mother says in one piece, as young Sedaris crams Halloween candy into his mouth rather than share it. He does what she says and then some, and what emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy.
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Sedaris' piquant essays are as meticulously honed and precisely timed as the best stand-up comic routines, which is, of course, what they are. A National Public Radio star, the author of five best-sellers, including Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), and a hall-filling performer, Sedaris--openly gay, nervy as a tightrope walker, sharply hilarious, teasingly misanthropic yet genuinely compassionate--has a unique ability to supply exactly the right details to bring every funny, awkward, ludicrous,... read more
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With Dress Your Family in Courduroy and Denim, David Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain, hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists betwen people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds.
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Well is Dry, June 22, 2004
Reviewer: ottodoggy (see more about me) from outer banks, north carolina United States Deavid Sedaris is a very funny writer, but he should have never gotten popular. This new collection, if it were his first, would never have been published in the first place. If you read magazines, you've already read most of this. Very little of it shows Sedaris at his considerable best. Coasting can be forgiven, but two-book coasting is beyond forgiveness. Sedaris has used up 50% of the permissible amount. Next book he needs to get back to business.
SO on the money.
You can't retell the same stories (and make a buck off me). We need new stuff. I have better material from Vogue magazines he's been posting in.
posted by irene @ 6/22/2004 08:46:00 PM
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