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Author
Language
English
Description
Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers...
Author
Language
English
Description
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs., 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The widely popular, award-winning Chicago Public Radio show of the same name is now a Showtime show. Funny, dramatic, surprising, true, a new series of real-life stories. Drawing on a different theme each week, viewers hear compelling stories from everyday folks culled from six months on the road.
Series
Guys read volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of humorous stories featuring a teenaged mummy, a homicidal turkey, and the world's largest pool of chocolate milk.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a disembodied human arm in a taxidermist's shop, Sedaris takes us on side-splitting adventures that...
13) Holidays on ice
Author
Language
English
Description
The author has always had a special affinity for Christmas. His celebrated National Public Radio debut, The Santa Land Diaries, which first appeared in print in Barrel Fever was hailed the Seattle Times. The New York Times also wrote of this book. Now The Santa Land Diaries & five other hilarious Christmas stories are available in a wonderfully subversive holiday gift package. For anyone who has had enough of the forced good cheer, family madness,...
15) The pig did it
Author
Series
Pig trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American in Ireland encounters mystery, romance—and an extremely disruptive pig: “Very funny . . . a payoff that is as unexpected as it is satisfying” (Publishers Weekly).
Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell’s pig distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland
Author
Series
Library of America volume 60-61
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
2 volumes ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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