Das Beste von mir

Author/Contributor(s):	Sedaris, David
Publisher:	Back Bay Books
Date:	09/07/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a literary space. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but it is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is 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 has become renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about loved ones. Here 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"--