| Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |  | Author: David Sedaris
Category: Book
Buy New: $23.99
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Sales Rank: 1,272,297
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Library Binding
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 257
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 1439566666
EAN: 9781439566664
ASIN: 1439566666
Publication Date: April 9, 2009
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Product Description
Essays to feaure; David Sedaris's brief and painful encounter with the most popular guy in junior high school.; 'The Rooster' in a tux and other unsavory animal tales from David's brother's wedding.; David Sedaris on the differences between love in movies and love in real life.; David Sedaris on his brutally frank neighbor, a 75-year-old woman named Rocky who is given to outbursts like, 'I'll kick you up the ass so hard I'll lose my shoe!' No one renders the pathos, chaos, and impossible variety of daily encounters like David Sedaris. On every subject, he is bruisingly painful and tenderly affectionate. Sedaris is a unique voice in American writing, and this new collection will be eagerly anticipated by his ever-growing crowd of devoted readers.
Amazon.com Review
It just isn’t fair: most of us would be lucky to be able to express ourselves in writing half as well as David Sedaris does in his new book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. But on top of his skills with the written word, the author also has substantial gifts as a performer, and he proves this on the audio version of the book. In his essay The Change in Me,Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people, and it’s clear that he takes after her. Whether he’s doing impressions of high-voiced brother Paul, or recalling times when he and his sisters tried to win good karma by speaking and acting like well-behaved, fairytale children, Sedaris’s nuanced performance hits the right note on both the opening, comedic stories, and the more poignant essays that tend to come later in the reading. In fact, for those who have already read some of the best stories in other publications including The New Yorker, the CD or cassette version of this collection is probably the best bet for furthering your appreciation of the material. Sedaris’s career is closely linked with two things: audio (he was discovered by NPR’s Ira Glass), and the personal lives of himself and his family. In Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, he describes fights with his boyfriend, and his sister-in-law’s difficult pregnancy. When sister Lisa complains about the stories involving the family, he writes about that, too. Sedaris's latest provides more evidence that he is a great humorist, memoirist and raconteur, and readers are lucky to have the opportunity to know him so well. Perhaps they are luckier still not to know him personally. --Leah Weathersby
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