Naked
by David Sedaris
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316779490
- ISBN 13
- 9780316779494
- Seller
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Foster, Rhode Island, United States
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Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lavendier Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1037405
- Title
- Naked
- Author
- David Sedaris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316779490
- ISBN 13
- 9780316779494
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1997-02-28
- Size
- 6x1x8
- X weight
- 15 oz
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