Barrel Fever
Subtitle: Stories and Essays
Edition: First Edition (1)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780316779401
Copyright date: 1994
Description: In David Sedaris’ world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris’ collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a bitter Santa abuses the elves; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral.

David Sedaris made his debut on NPR’s Morning Edition with “SantaLand Diaries”, recounting his strange-but-true experiences as an elf at Macy’s, and soon became one of the show’s most popular commentators. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is a hilarious, enormously affecting debut.
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Table of contents: title: Stories. Parade ; Music for lovers ; The last you'll hear from me ; My manuscript ; Firestone ; We get along ; Glen's homophobia newsletter vol. 3, no. 2 ; Don's story ; Season's greetings to our friends and family!!! ; Jamboree ; After Malison ; Barrel fever --; title: Essays. Diary of a smoker ; Giantess ; The curly kind ; SantaLand diaries.