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ISBN-10: 1586215647 ISBN-13: 9781586215644. Edition: Abridged.

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites""as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ("Six to...

Includes Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Holidays on Ice, and Barrel Fever and Other Stories. Audie Award finalist and winner of a 2006 Listen Up Award from Publishers Weekly. From discussions on his family and his jobs to his life in France and New York, Sedaris is a delight. "Breathtaking. His essays are written to be read aloud, and he performs them flawlessly."—Publishers Weekly

Description A 2004 Audie 'Audiobook of the Year' Finalist 2004 Audie Award Winner for 'Best Humor' Audiobook, presented by the Audio Publishers Association for excellence in audio publishing. “David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall is a rollicking comedic masterpiece...this recording will deservedly take its rightful place among the best comedy albums of our time.”—AudiobooksTODAY.com Recorded live on October 22, 2002 in New York City Track Listing 1: Thanks 2-4: Repeat After Me 5: Why Them? (Introduction...

Audie Award winner. This brilliant writer delights us as well as his delirious sold-out audience. Tales include a parrot mimicking an icemaker, lovers quarreling over a rubber hand, and a Santa who moonlights from his job as bishop of Turkey. Grammy nominee. "I find myself cackling like a madwoman on laughing gas... utterly hilarious."—USA Today

In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members.

This wonderfully subversive holiday gift package reprints Sedaris' deliciously acerbic short story "The Santaland Diaries" and combines it with two equally sardonic Sedaris Christmas classics plus an all-new holiday tale. For everyone who's had enough of the forced good cheer, family madness, and commercial overkill of Christmas, "Holiday on Ice" is the perfect antidote.

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Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, David Sedaris has become one of the best-loved humorists of our time, writing with perfect pitch about the ludicrousness of our age. Featuring some pieces about his sojourn in Paris that have been published and many that have been featured in The New Yorker , Esquire , and on NPR , this is a hilarious collection that shouldn't be missed.

In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.

David Sedaris' beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris' tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ("Six to Eight...

David Sedaris' collection, Me Talk Pretty One Day , tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. From budding performance artist ("The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever") to "clearly unqualified" writing teacher in...

Hilary Mantel, author of this year’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall , conjures up Henry VIII and his vast embattled court—including Anne Boleyn and, most especially, Thomas Cromwell—so brilliantly, so effectively that, had she been living then, she would probably have been accused of witchcraft. Her ability to get inside the characters in this extraordinary, wonderfully paced saga, to capture their essences, their language, their thoughts and cadences is amazing. And Simon Slater’s reading...

In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.

More true tales from everybody's favorite essayist. The best-selling author of Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day returns in full force with a classic collection of nonfiction pieces. Bearing the unmistakable stamp of David Sedaris' offbeat humor, brimming with priceless insights, these carefully crafted slices of autobiography serve as open invitations into the author's life. There are laugh-out-loud accounts of Sedaris' middle-class upbringing, including family vacations, quarrels with his parents...