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When You Are Engulfed in Flames | 
 enlarge | Author: David Sedaris
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  210 reviews
Sales Rank: 87
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316143472
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9780316143479
ASIN: 0316143472
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.
Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times).
Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames:
"Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus Reviews
This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist
Table of Contents:
It's Catching
Keeping Up
The Understudy
This Old House
Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?
Road Trips
What I Learned
That's Amore
The Monster Mash
In the Waiting Room
Solutions to Saturday's Puzzle
Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool
Memento Mori
All the Beauty You Will Ever Need
Town and Country
Aerial
The Man in the Hut
Of Mice and Men
April in Paris
Crybaby
Old Faithful
The Smoking Section
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| Customer Reviews: Read 205 more reviews...
 love this book August 29, 2008
I read this entire book on a 12 plus hour flight to Beijing, China. Those seated around me was laughing because I was getting so much enjoyment from my book. This is possibly his best book yet.
I love David Sedaris... August 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As with all of his books, this book is filled with hilarious stories. Totally amusing. I love his work.
 When You Are Engulfed in Flames August 26, 2008
This book is just all right. It seems to be a repeat of everything else he has written.... decoratively funny, but not thought provoking.
Hilarious August 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I have read many amusing books in the past, my response is usually an inward smile and a mental note to myself of how clever and succinct the description chosen by the author. This book however causes one to laugh out loud. A true gem!
5 Because I Am not an Universalist August 26, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you don't care for this book (like one star rater swine afterbirth below) then a hand will appear on your wall and write: "Mene Mene Tekhal Upharsin Sedaris!!" {OK I know biblically its a finger but I can't conceive of Diety giving anyone the finger over a book that isn't the Book of Life etc.) and least not a book as lightweight as this. But I could be wrong (it happened before).
Anywize . . being interpreted. "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Your sense of humor is given over to the Medes and Persians. You will rott [sic <-- literary shorthand for I am too lazy to correct my spelling] in Hell for all eternity for your slandering of Humorist Sedarus unless you are an annihilist in which case you will be tormented until you get the point and then wiped out in a puff of smoke, thereby making the point moot,
ciao // gurkha
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