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- Publisher: Little Brown & Co
- ISBN: 0316777730
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101991018
- Release Date: June 1, 1998
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #31023 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #112 in Humor (See Top 100 Humor Bestsellers)
- #12 in Form - Essays (See Top 100 Form - Essays Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by David Sedaris (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Naked" by David Sedaris to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Naked"Browse more products related to "David Sedaris"Review"In this collection of essays, playwright and NPR commentator Sedaris tops his anarchically hilarious miscellany 'Barrel Fever' (1994) by inventing a new genre: autobiography as fun-house mirror. From the first sentence ('I'm thinking of asking the servants to wax my change before placing it in the Chinese tank in keep on my dresser"), 'Naked' pretty well clobbers the reader into dizzy submission. Sedaris applies the same deadpan fastidiousness to his life that Charlie Chaplin applied to his shoe in 'The Gold Rush'--this is splendid stuff." "While Sedaris certainly plays his family's eccentricities for laughs...he's just as clearly celebrating them, too....This is Sedaris' gift, to capture the language of intimate humor, and in so doing to strip family life to its naked components: anger, fear, and love." Publisher's noteOne of the most talked-about, most enjoyed bestsellers of the year, NAKED offers a collection of hilarious, touching, genre-bending vignettes "guaranteed to make you blow milk out your nose" ("Details"). AnnotationThrough a series of comic anecdotes, quirky essayist David Sedaris touches on the highlights of his life to date, including his cross-country hitchhiking trip; his discovery of Shakespeare in rural North Carolina; his various odd jobs as a migrant fruit picker, a jade polisher, and a woodwork refinisher; a family Christmas Eve spent with a prostitute fresh out of jail; and his trip to a nudist colony. If You Enjoy "Naked (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:
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