When You Are Engulfed In Flames
By: by David Sedaris.
Edition: 1st ed. (1)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2008-06
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780316143479
Copyright date: 2008
Description: It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them returns home Chesney Yelverton is coaxed from retirement and assigned to what proves to be the most difficult and deadly - case of his career. From the shining notorious East Side, <i>When You Are Engulfed in Flames</i> confirms once again that David Sedaris is a master of mystery and suspense.

Or how about...

when set on fire, most of us either fumble for our wallets or waste valuable time feeling sorry for ourselves. David Sedaris has studied this phenomenon, and his resulting insights may very well save your life. Author of the national bestsellers <i>Should You Be Attacked By Snakes</i> and <I>If You Are Surrounded by Mean Ghosts</i>, David Sedaris, with <i>When You Are Engulfed in Flames</i>, is clearly at the top of his game.

Oh, all right...

David Sedaris has written yet another book of essays (his sixth). Subjects include a parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the recreational use of an external catheter. Also recounted is the buying of a human skeleton and the author's attempt to quit smoking In Tokyo.

Master of nothing, at the dead center of his game, Sedaris proves that when you play with matches, you sometimes light the whole pack on fire.
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Table of contents: title: It's catching; title: Aeriel; title: All the beauty you will ever need; title: Old faithful; title: Town and country; title: Mementi mori; title: Road trips; title: Keeping up; title: The understudy; title: Adult figures charging towards a concrete toadstool; title: In the waiting room; title: This old house; title: Solution to Saturday's puzzle; title: The man in the hut; title: The monster mash.; title: That's amore; title: The Smoking Section