num_pages: 304
description: Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview—a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.
language: English
title: Naked
titlecomplete: Naked
characters: David Sedaris
genres: Audiobook, Essays, Short Stories, Biography, LGBT, Comedy, Nonfiction, Memoir, Humor, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 261951
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Randy Shilts Award
category: Gay Nonfiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Humor, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Thurber Prize
category: American Humor
publisher: Back Bay Books