When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Edition: 1st Large print ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2008-06
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780316024594
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Form - Essays; Humor / Essays; Humor
Description: David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of essays.

Sedaris proceeds from the bizarre conundrums of daily life - the proper etiquette to follow when a lozenge falls from your mouth into the lap of a fellow airplane passenger or how to use LP covers to soundproof your windows against neurotic songbirds - to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the purchase of a human skeleton, and culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking - in Tokyo - David Sedaris's sixth collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing.
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Notes: US/CAN