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When You Are Engulfed in Flames | 
 enlarge | Author: David Sedaris
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $25.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  93 reviews
Sales Rank: 7
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316143472
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9780316143479
ASIN: 0316143472
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
"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 a Concrete 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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Engulfed in reading this! July 4, 2008
I really enjoyed this book, it was a quick read and made me laugh out loud many times. I have read all of David Sedaris' books and this meets the expectations that the others did...AWESOME:)
 Hilarious! July 4, 2008
David Sedaris is our favorite author, and as always, his latest book is no dissapointment!
Better than the last July 4, 2008
I enjoyed this book far more than "Dress Your Family...". The stories were fresh and exemplative of this fine writer as he relates his bits of realism with both humor and emmotion. David Sedaris has made me laugh and cry. I am already looking forward to his next book! Until then I will re-read the others!
HILARIOUS July 2, 2008
True (or perhaps trueish) to form, Sedaris will have you laughing out loud at his latest book. My favorite part was about the StadiumPal, external catheter.
Does my heart good July 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This collection of short stories is about the only thing, these days, that causes me to laugh out loud. Thanks, I needed that.
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