"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").
Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames:
"Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once
again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an
absurd life." --"Kirkus Reviews"
This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have
it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will
still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain."
--"Booklist"
Table of Contents:
It's Catching
Keeping Up
The Understudy
This Old House
Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?
Road Trips
What I Learned
That's Amore
The Monster Mash
In the Waiting Room
Solutions to Saturday's Puzzle
Adult Figures Charging Toward aConcrete Toadstool
Memento Mori
All the Beauty You Will Ever Need
Town and Country
Aerial
The Man in the Hut
Of Mice and Men
April in Paris
Crybaby
Old Faithful
The Smoking Section
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