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The Best of Me
by Sedaris, David
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/good
- ISBN 10
- 0316628247
- ISBN 13
- 9780316628242
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
New York: Little Brown & Co, 2020. Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good/good. yellow papered boards, dust jacket unclipped, 388 pp, first edition, dj stained, edges lightly soiled
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Synopsis
For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work. In these stories, Sedaris shops for rare taxidermy, hitchhikes with a lady quadriplegic, and spits a lozenge into a fellow traveler’s lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say “give it to me” in five languages, and hand-feeds a carnivorous bird. But if all you expect to find in Sedaris’s work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery, more fellow-feeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In these pages, Sedaris explores falling in love and staying together, recognizing his own aging not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings, losing one parent and coming to terms—at long last—with the other.
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Details
- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95380
- Title
- The Best of Me
- Author
- Sedaris, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo
- ISBN 10
- 0316628247
- ISBN 13
- 9780316628242
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2020
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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