Barrel Fever
Subtitle: Stories and Essays
By: David Sedaris.
Edition: 1st paperback ed. (8)
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780316779425
Copyright date: 1994
Description: In David Sedaris’s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the <i>National Enquirer</i>, Sedaris’s 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 teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves.

David Sedaris made his debut on NPR’s <i>Morning Edition</i> 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. <i>Barrel Fever</i> is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.
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Notes: US/CAN
Table of contents: title: Parade --; title: Music for lovers --; title: The last you'll hear from me --; title: My manuscript --; title: Firestone --; title: We get along --; title: Glen's homophobia newsletter vol. 3, no. 2 --; title: Don's story --; title: Season's greeting to our friends and family!!! --; title: Jamboree --; title: After Malison --; title: Barrel fever --; title: Diary of a smoker --; title: Giantess --; title: The curly kind --; title: SantaLand diaries.