Naked
by David Sedaris
- Used
- Near Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316777730
- ISBN 13
- 9780316777735
- Seller
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Dowagiac, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 291 p. Audience: General/trade.
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
- Olympia Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 888655476964912260
- Title
- Naked
- Author
- David Sedaris
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0316777730
- ISBN 13
- 9780316777735
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- June 1, 1998
- Keywords
- 20th century; Biography & Autobiography; Essays; Form; Humor; Humorists, American; Literary Collections; Literary essays; Non-Fiction; Personal Memoirs; Social life and customs; United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed;
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