num_pages: 3
description: 3 Audio CDs / 3 hoursIn Naked, David Sedaris's message is pay attention to me. Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in 'A Plague of Tics' to the title story, in which he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means. This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.
language: English
title: Naked
titlecomplete: Naked
characters: David Sedaris
genres: Audiobook, Essays, Short Stories, Biography, LGBT, Comedy, Nonfiction, Memoir, Humor, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 261958
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: Grand Central Publishing