Naked
In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me.
Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in A Plague of Tics to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means.
This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.
Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in A Plague of Tics to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means.
This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.
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Format: Hardcover Book
Price: $21.45 US/$29.95 CAN
ISBN-13: 9780316779494
On Sale Date: 03/01/1997
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Formats Available: Audiobook, Hardcover Book, Trade Paperback, Audiobook, Electronic Book
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In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me.
Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in A Plague of Tics to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means.
This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.
Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in A Plague of Tics to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means.
This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.
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Product Details
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Price: $21.45 US/$29.95 CAN
- Pages: 304
- Physical Dimensions: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
- ISBN-13: 9780316779494
- On Sale Date: 03/01/1997
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $24.98
- Audio Run Time: 180
- ISBN-13: 9781586212230
- On Sale Date: 03/01/1997
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $21.45
- Pages: 304
- Physical Dimensions: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
- ISBN-13: 9780316779494
- On Sale Date: 03/01/1997
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $15.99
- Pages: 224
- Physical Dimensions: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
- ISBN-13: 9780316777735
- On Sale Date: 03/01/1997
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $14.98
- ISBN-13: 9781594831799
- On Sale Date: 03/01/1997
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $9.99
- ISBN-13: 9780316073622
- On Sale Date: 03/01/1997
