When You are Engulfed in Flames
Adventurer in Archaeology
Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds - to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo and the purchase of a human skeleton, and culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking - in Tokyo - David Sedaris's sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing and a number one NY Times bestseller in hardback. (lib)
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Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds - to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo and the purchase of a human skeleton, and culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking - in Tokyo - David Sedaris's sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing and a number one NY Times bestseller in hardback. (lib)
Untertitel
Adventurer in Archaeology
H | B | T | Gramm
195 mm | 125 mm | 25 mm | 0.25 kg
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
FSK
0
Ausgabe
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-10
0349116474
ISBN-13
9780349116471
Autor
David Sedaris
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
310
Themen
Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung
Keywords
Amerikanische Belletristik / Essay, Feuilleton, Reportage, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, TB/Belletristik/Lyrik/Dramatik/Essays, Englische Belletristik / Essay, Feuilleton, Reportage, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Geschichte, Reportagen und journalistische Berichterstattung oder zusammengestellte Kolumnen, Archäologie
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David Sedaris
David Sedaris is the author of thirteen previous books, including, most recently, A Carnival of Snackery, The Best of Me, Calypso and Happy-Go-Lucky. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor. Sedaris lives in Sussex and travels regularly to the US.
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