When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Edition: First Back Bay trade paperback edition (5)
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 2009-06
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780316154680
Copyright date: 2009 (stated on back cover)
Subjects: Entertainment -- Humor -- Essays; Entertainment -- Humor -- Satire; Literature & Fiction -- Essays
Description: “David Sedaris’s ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art,” (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. 
Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths.  Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris’s sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from “a writer worth treasuring” (Seattle Times). 
Source: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-sedaris/when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames/9780316154680/
Table of contents: title: It’s Catching; title: Keeping Up; title: The Understudy; title: This Old House; title: Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?; title: Road Trips; title: What I Learned; title: That’s Amore; title: The Monster Mash; title: In the Waiting Room; title: Solutions to Saturday’s Puzzle; title: Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool; title: Memento Mori; title: All the Beauty You Will Ever Need; title: Town and Country; title: Aerial; title: The Man in the Hut; title: Of Mice and Men; title: April in Paris; title: Crybaby; title: Old Faithful; title: The Smoking Section