| Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays |  | Author: David Sedaris
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 28,305
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1ST
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4
ISBN: 0316779423
EAN: 9780316779425
ASIN: 0316779423
Publication Date: June 1, 1995
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Product Description
In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.
Amazon.com Review
A collection of stories and essays by humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris based upon his own experiences and the hidden perversity that can be found in Anytown, U.S.A. Here are images and blasphemies that nice people don't dare look at--blatantly exposed and told with the clear, casual voice of intimate knowledge. Sedaris' humor is born of compassion and his tales range from the sharing of cheery Christmas letters featuring infanticide, to experiences of the Gay and Famous (Charlton Heston and Elizabeth Dole, for example), to the lives of siblings named Hope, Faith, Charity and Adolph and to alcoholics and chain smokers you can laugh with.
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