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When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:David Sedaris Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the ... more »water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny (and never before published) account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.
Audio Review:
In David Sedaris's excellent latest collection, cringe-worthy moments follow on the heels of laugh-out-loud ones -- you may never buy another pair of thrift-store pants, for example, and that's only the beginning. The stories jump back and forth in time and locale -- Sedaris is in middle school, in college, in his grown, professional life; now North Carolina, now New York, now Normandy. The constant is Sedaris's narration, and that's why his delivery works so well with his words -- every absurdity is made more believable (if not more palatable) thanks to his steady reading. He sounds incredulous and world-weary all at the same time. Death may be a recurring theme in these essays, but listeners will chuckle helplessly all the same. Track listings with titles are helpfully printed on the CDs, so it's easy to go back and find favorites again. -- AudioFile
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
Solution to Saturday's puzzle
Adult figures charging toward a concrete toadstool